ing itself in some hole, as ashamed to look their Captain in the face, or to show their head among the fair company? To such he says, come away; come away forward, onward, homeward. Yes, home, for he will have you home. Father I will, says he, that they also whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast

me."

given mur Lord displays his glory to you

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the gospel, to win your hearts and get you away with him, Come, says he, with me, with me. As when the sun appears, the stars hide their heads, and have no beauty by reason of that which excelleth; so the glory of the Son of God, discerned by faith, will make all the glory of the world like a small candle before the sun, going out with

smoke.

7. Our Lord offers you, not only better in hope, but better in hand than the world Do not can give you. Come with me. complain that he would pluck you off the breasts, it is only to pluck you off the dry the foulsome breasts of the world to set you upon better; "That ye may suck and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolation; that ye may milk out and be delighted with the abundance of her glory."

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He knows the frame of our hearts, they

must always have something to feed upon, and that they will never part with the world, but for something that is better. "Shake thyself from the dust; arise and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion." You shall be with him, with him at home, that is heaven.. With him in the way, that is heaven on the earth. Communion with him, Habitual communion in fellowship with him in his righteousness. death, Spirit, purchase. Actual communion in the communications of his grace and manifestations of himself.

8. If you will come away, you shall go as he goes, you shall go together. Go as he' goes ir point of duty. Esteem all things as he does. Let his choice be your choice. Rejoice in these things in which he rejoices; and be grieved for what grieves his Spirit. Love what he loves and hate what he hates. Can two walk together except they be agreed? And you shall go as he goes in point of privilege. You shall have your lot with him. Always take his side, whoever oppose him, and you shall share in all the advantages which his friends shall have of the world here, or hereafter. Wherever the world may drive you, he will be with

you.

9. He will lead you and support you

through the whole of the way. You are now in the fields of the world, and there will be difficult steps in your way to the city; these will not be easily discerned, but come with him, he will keep you from stumbling on the dark mountains. And "I will bring, says he, the blind by a way which they knew not; I will lead them in paths which they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them." He will bear you up and bear you through with all the weight of your guilt, duties, and afflictions, for you must come with him leaning as the Bride upon the Bridegroom.

Lastly, He will be all to you in all, Leave all the world and come with me, for all, as the espoused bride goes with her husband. Whatever comfort, pleasure, and delight you drew out of the muddy streams, you may now draw in a far superior manner from the fountain. Thus it shall be your duty and privilege too, to live as peopie of another world. "For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ" To maintain a heavenly frame, will make your whole conversation heavenly. To be fre quent and fervent in duties, will lead you to fellowship with him in providences and

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rdinances. And that will make a pleasat sight." Who is this that cometh out f the wilderness like pillars of smoke, permed with myrrh and frankincense, with powders of the merchant ?"

Uses of Improvement.

HEARKEN, O sinners to this call, which hrist gives to his church. Come away with im, you that are espoused to him, and even ou that are not so, but are in the visible church, here he seeks his Bride. Come away to him, me with him from out of this world and the ons dens. Take your parting look of the mounins of vanity, and come away. For motives, 1. Consider that these mountains are certainly be laid waste. A fire will devour them as odom. The earth also and the works that are erein shall be burnt up with fire." Christ calls for whom he has a kindness to make haste om these mountains, as Lot did out of Sodom, d this is a certain evidence that they are devoted destruction. Therefore come away and look t back. And if his own were once freely out, en the pillars are removed and this weary world Is into the fire.

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Motive 2-Is it not the place of lions' dens? ow then can you be safe in it. Has not the eat roaring lion his den in it? And does he t go about catching his prey in every part of 1 Pet. v. 8. Is it not full of wicked men o are young lions? May not the yellings ich you hear in their blasphemies against God

and religion, their roarings against the church and the work of God, and the devouring work which they frequently make upon their fellowcreatures, may not all these make it a wea weary land

in your eyes.

3. Is there any among us all, to whom it has not been a place of lions' dens? Let you conscience speak, and say, has it not been in many instances an unkind world to you? How often has it touched you on the sore heel, and given you a blow where you were least able to bear it? How often have lions and leopards as it were started out upon you from places where you expected nothing but to have been at ease and in safety. And will you yet hug the serpent, and dandle that which has as often bruised your bones. Do it no longer, but come away with Christ. For,

4. In the enjoyment of Christ, you will not be grieved with disappointments as you have been from the world. Worldly things are fairest afar off, greater in expectation than in enjoyment But the enjoyment of Christ will far surpass your most elevated expectation. Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the hear of man, the things which God hath prepared fo them that love him." The he treasure of the gospe will endure through all the ages of eternity.How often have you hand to put out your Otak up what you needed from the world, and behol you have had nothing. Every disappointmen from the world with which you meet, says fo Christ, come away.

5 He will not reward your love with, hatre as the world has done a thousand times. love them, says he, that love me, and those th