heaven, and by the crowns which believers put on His head, that ye
slight not this offer.

"Here I take every man and woman to witness against one another, that ye
had Christ in your offer; and I shall be a witness against all of you
that have not received Christ _this night_. Yea, though he should never
be glorified in such a sort by me, yet I will be a witness against you.
Here, before the throne of grace, I declare in His name, that I have
made an offer of Him unto you; and, therefore, your blood shall be upon
your own heads if ye perish, and I shall be free of the same."

In another place, he presses with like earnestness acceptance of the
gospel offer:--"If ye would be rightly concerned, ye must at once come,
and be a right son or daughter of the church, and member of Jesus
Christ; until then, ye cannot have a fellow-feeling of the body. Come
then, and Christ will give you a fellow-feeling with the sufferings of
the church. Come and embrace Himself, and He will set the stamp of
natural children upon you. Without Him, ye can do nothing; without Him,
ye cannot be concerned with the sufferings of His name and members.
Refuse not; reject not His offers, when He calls you to Himself. It is
hard to say if some of you shall have an offer again. _Now_ is the
acceptable time--_now_ is the day of salvation. He is _now_ spreading
his net, and will ye not come about the net's mouth, that a catch of you
may be gotten. He is proclaiming unto you that He hath invincible power,
though managed by apparent weakness. Oh, find you any of this
irresistible power of Christ? Oh, come unto Him who is the joy of
heaven, and it shall be a joyful time in heaven. He will have a good
report of you through heaven, if ye shall have it to say that some poor
lad or lass hath put a crown upon His head in such a place. But oh, how
sad will it be, if Christ shall have it to say, 'I gave offer of myself