Make room, men, make room, angels, and bring up that soul to sit near me on my throne. Thus shall it be done to all that make God their glory here below. Glorify God on earth, and he will glorify you in heaven. Come, ye blessed of my Father, receive the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world, shall be your portion : and if so, Lord God Almighty make us content to be vilified whilst here, make us content to be despised while below, make us content to have evil things spoken of us, all for Christ's sake, yet a little while, and Christ will roll away the stone: and the more we are honored by his grace to suffer, the more we shall be honored in the kingdom of heaven. O that thought! O that blessed thought! O that soul transporting thought! it is enough to make us leap into a fiery furnace; in this spirit, in this temper, may God put every one of us. If there be any of you that have not yet called God your God, may God help you to do so tonight. When I was reasoning within myself, whether I should come up, or whether it was my duty or not? I could not help thinking, who knows but God will bless a poor feeble worm tonight. I remember, a dear friend sent me word after I was gone to Georgia, "Your last sermon "at the Tabernacle was blessed to a particular "person;" I heard from that person to-day, and who knows but some may come to day, and say, I will go and hear what the babler has to say; who knows but curiosity may be over-ruled for good? who knows but those that have served the - lust of the flesh and the pride of life for their god, may now take the Lord to be their God? O! if I could but see this, I think I could drop down dead for you. My dear Christians, will you not help me tonight, you that can go and call God your God? go and beg of God for me, pray to heaven for me, do pray for those that are in the gall of bitterness, that have no God, no Christ to go to, and if they were to die to-night, would be damned forever. O poor sinner, where is your glory then; where is your purple and fine linen then; your purple robes will be turned into purple fire, and instead of calling God your God, will be damn'd with the devil: O think of your danger! O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord! If you never was awakened before, may the arrows of God, steep'd in the blood of Jesus Christ, reach your hearts now! Think how you live at enmity with God, think of your danger every day and every hour, your danger of dropping into hell; think how your friends in glory will leave you, and may this consideration, under the influence of the Holy Ghost, excite you to chuse God for your God! Tho' the sun is going down, tho' the shadow of the evening is coming on, God is willing, O man, God is willing, O woman, to be a sinner's God, he has found out a way whereby he can be reconciled to you. I remember when I saw a nobleman condemned to be hanged, the Lord High Stewart told him, that however he was obliged to pass sentence on him, and did not know that justice would be satisfied but by the execution of the law in this world, yet there might be a way whereby justice might be satisfied and mercy take place in ancther: when I heard his Lordship speak, I wished that he had not only said, there might be a way, but that he had found out the way wherein God could be just and yet a poor murderer coming to Jesus Christ should be pardoned. You that can call God yours, God help you from this moment to glorify you more and more; and if God be your God and your glory, I am persuaded, if the love of God abounds in your hearts, you will be willing on every occasion to do every thing to promote his honor and glory, and therefore you will be willing at all times to assist and help as far as lies in your power to keep up places of worship, to promote his glory in the salvation and conversion of sinners; and I mention this because there is to be a collection this night; I would have chose, if possible, to have evaded this point, but as this Tabernacle has been repaired, and as the expence is pretty large, and as I would chuse to leave every thing unincumbered, I told my friends, I would undertake to make a collection, that every thing might be left quite clear: remember, it is not for me, but for yourselves, I told you on Wednesday how matters were; I am now going a thirteenth time over the water on my own expence, and you shall know at the great day what little, very little assistance I have had from those who owed, under God, their souls to my being here: but this is for the place where you are to meet, and where I hope God will meet you, when I am tossing on the water, when I am in a foreign clime. I think, I can say: thy glory, O God calls me away, and as I am going towards sixty years of age, I shall make what dispatch I can, and I hope, if I am spared to come back, that I shall hear that some of you are gone to heaven, or are nearer heaven than you were. I find there is 701. arrears; I hope you will not run away, if you can say God is my glory, you will not push one upon another, as though you would loose yourselves in the croud, and say no body sees me; but does not God Almighty see you? I hope you will be ready to communicate, and when I am gone that God will be with you : as many of you will not hear me on Wednesday morning. O may this be your prayer, O for Jesus Christ's sake, in whose name I preach, in whose strength I desire to come up, and for whose honor I desire to be spent, O do put up a word for me, it will not cost you much time, it will not keep you a moment from your business; O Lord Jesus Christ thou art his God! and, Lord Jesus Christ let him be thy glory! If I die in the waters, I shall go by water to heaven; if I land at the Orphan House, I hope it will be a means to settle a foundation for ten thousand persons to be instructed; and if I go by the continent, as I intend to do, I hope God will enable me to preach Christ; and if I return again my life will be devoted to your service. You excuse me, I cannot say much more, affection works, and I could heartily wish, and I beg it as a favour, when I come to leave you, that you will excuse me from a particular parting with you; take my public farewell; I will pray for you when in the cabin, I will pray for you when storms and tempests are about me; and this shall be my prayer for the dear people of the Tabernacle, for the dear people of the Chapel, for the dear people of London, O God, be thou their God and grant, that their God may be their glory. Even so, Lord Jesus! Amen. SERMON XVII. JACOB'S LADDER. A FAREWELL SERMON. -- GENESIS XXviii. ver. 12, &c. * And he dreamed, and behold, a ladder set upon the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it. And be hold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed. And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth; and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south and in thee, and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed, And behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places, whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land: for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of. ΤΗ HE wise man observes, that in the multitude of dreams, there is many vanities, being often the effects of a peculiar disorder of body, or owing to some disturbance of the mind. They whose nervous system has been long relaxed, who have had severe domestic trials, or have been greatly affected by extraordinary occurrences, know this to be true by their own experience; but however this may be, there have been, and possibly may be still, dreams that have no manner of dependence on the indisposition of the body or other natural cause, but seem to bring a divine sanction with them, and make peculiar impres |