PERSUASIVES ΤΟ EARLY PIETY. BY J. G. PIKE. LONDON: THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY; Instituted 1799. DEPOSITORIES, 56, PATERNOSTER ROW, 65, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD, AND 164, PICCADILLY. V. Cautions against some delusive supports on which many rest their hopes, to their eternal ruin VII. Divine love a reason for early piety VIII. Early piety peculiarly acceptable to God, and pecu- IX. The advantages of early religion 142 XII. No real good possessed by those destitute of religion; their ingratitude to God and cruelty to themselves. 134 XIII. The vanity of youth and the uncertainty of life reasons for the immediate choice of early piety XIV. The sorrows and dangers that attend the way of trans- XV. The terrors and fearful consequences of death and My dear young friend, if a person could rise from the dead to speak to you, how attentively would you listen to his discourse, and how much would you be affected by it! Yet a messenger from the dead could not tell you more important things than those to which I now beseech you to attend. I come to ask you to give your heart to GoD; I come to invite you to follow the Divine REDEEMER now ; I come to entreat you to walk in the pleasant path of early piety. Oh that I could, with all the fervour of a dying man, beseech you to attend to your only great concerns! It is not to a trifle that I call your attention, but to your life, your all-your eternal all, your God, your Saviour, your heaven, your everything that is worth a thought or wish. Do not let a stranger be more anxious than yourself for your eternal welfare. If you have been thoughtless hitherto, be serious now. It is time you were so. You have wasted years enough. Think of Sir Francis Walsingham's words: B |