You have been hearing that to attone for such sinners as you, Jesus was lifted up upon a cross; to wash such polluted souls as yours, his blood flowed in copious streams; O then, neglect not so great, so free, and so suitable a salvation as is here offered to all without exception. Then, having Christ, you shall have all things; then you will experience that calm serenity within, to which the riotous voluptuary is a stranger; and when the calamities of life and approach of death, which makes nobility to hang down its head in foreboding anguish, will come, they shall find you well prepared, and like a wall of brass, to receive their assaults.

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