the child
for the father; but in the sin thou sinnest thou shalt die; and in the
righteousness thou doest, through Christ Jesus, thou shalt live: for it
is the willing and obedient that shall eat the good of the land. Be not
deceived, God is mocked. Such as all nations and people sow, such they
shall reap at the hand of the just God. And then your many and great
privileges, above the children of other people, will add weight in the
scale against you, if you choose not the way of the Lord. For you have
had line upon line, and precept upon precept, and not only good doctrine
but good example; and which is more, you have been turned to, and
acquainted with, a principle in yourselves, which others too generally
have been ignorant of: and you know you may be as good as you please,
without the fear of frowns and blows, or being turned out of doors, and
forsaken of father and mother, for God's sake and his holy religion; as
has been the case of some of your fathers in the day they first entered
into this holy path. And if you, after hearing and seeing the wonders
that God has wrought in the deliverance and preservation of them, through
a sea of troubles, and the manifold temporal, as well as spiritual,
blessings that he has filled them with, in the sight of their enemies,
should neglect and turn your backs upon so great and near a salvation,
you would not only be most ungrateful children to God and them, but must
expect that God will call the children of those that knew him not, to
take the crown out of your hands, and that your lot will be a dreadful
judgment at the hand of the Lord: but, O that it may never be so with any
of you! The Lord forbid, saith my soul.

Wherefore, O ye young men and women! look to the rock of your fathers:
there is no other God but him, no other light but his, no other grace but
his, nor spirit but his, to convince you, quicken, and comfort you; to
lead, guide, and preserve you to God's everlasting kingdom. So will you
be possessors as well as professors of the truth, embracing it, not only
by education, but judgment and conviction; from a sense begotten in your
souls, through the operation of the eternal Spirit and power of God; by
which you may come to be the seed of Abraham, through faith, and the
circumcision not made with hands; and so heirs of the promise made to the
fathers, of an incorruptible crown. That, as I said before, a generation
you may be to God, holding up the profession of