ftand prepared. With our loins girded, and our lights burning, may we thus wait for our Lord! Impreffed with fuch views, I have often wished to take the afflicted by the hand, and lead them to a Refource their paffions have obfcured. I have wished them to fee that the chriftian hope is then most alive and full of immortality, when every other hope perishes: these wishes, and the request of a friend, (who was folicitous to obtain fomething of this kind more compendious than he had yet feen,) have drawn from me fome imperfect hints.-Imperfect, however, as they are, like a few words, prefented by the road's fide to the eye of a weary traveller, they may afford you fome prefent direction and relief. —And thould He, who is pleafed to employ the feebleft means in his greatest work, conduct you by them, (though but a fingle step on your way) towards a Morning af Morning without clouds-a Houfe without mourning,-the fervice of your fectionate friend will obtain a high reward. TRACTS Published by the same Author. Friendly Advice to Servants. A new Edit. of Maclaurin’s Sermon on Gái, vi. 14. Memoirs of John Bacon, Efq. R. A. A Sermon before the Clerical Miffionary Society. ALSO, To be had of Messrs. Williams and Co. Stationers Court, Ludgate Street: Short Hints to a Soldier. Early Piety, a Sermon, to Children. Reafons for Repose, refpecting the Truth of the Scriptures, in a Letter to a Lady. Printed by W. Flint, Old Bailey. |