goodness, his undeserved goodness to such a base wretch as you art.
Dunse, how a body, perhaps sometime beautiful, was like thin mortar, but much more vile and abominable. The time will come that you will be such yourself. But what are you as to your heart, but a vile, base, and ugly thing, so many filthy idols to be found there, like a swarm of the worst of vermin? Are you not as a cage full of unclean birds! What thought you of yourself on Monday night, Jan. 16, 1699? What unbelief saw you there, what baseness of every kind? And what day goes over you, but you see still something in you to humble you? And what were you that God has employed in this work? Those who were sometime your fellows are mean and despised; and will you for all this seek your own glory? Woe unto you if you do so.
7. Consider, That "Him that honours God, God will honour; but he who despises him, shall be lightly esteemed." Have respect, O my soul, with Moses, to the recompense of reward, and beware of preferring your own to the interest of Christ, lest you are classed among those who seek their own, and not the things of Christ.
8. Lastly, Consider what Christ has done for you. Forget not his goodness, his undeserved goodness to such a base wretch as you art. Remember him from the land of the Hermonites, and from Mizarhill; and let love to him predominate in you, and you shall then be helped to sacrifice all to his glory.
Thirdly, Christ had the good of souls in his eye. He came to seek and save what was lost; he came to seek the lost sheep of the house of Israel. So he sent out the apostle to open the eyes of the blind, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God. Follow Christ in this, O my soul, that you may be a fisher of men. When you study your sermons, let the good of souls be before thee; when you preach, let this be your design, to endeavour to recover lost sheep, to get some brands plucked out of the burning; to get some converted, and brought in to your Master. Let that be much in your mind, and be concerned for that, whatever doctrine you preach. Consider, O my soul, for this effect,