attack, and place our reliance and dependance alone on the Almighty, and as the storm was sudden, and unexpected, and terrified the disciples of the blessed Jesus, that even, the sea began to roar, and the whole ocean looked black, and the wind to sound terribly, and the foaming billows, and boisterous waves rolled in upon them, so that they verily thought they should perish, instantly as their faith urged them to call on their all-powerful master, he listened unto their cry of justice, and stilled and rebuked the troubled waves, and all was calm and quiet. Let me now rouse all mankind, and particularly sinners to have a lively faith in God, that they may have a due sense of his great mercies, that as they have been carried along for a series of years, and length of days, in the deceitful and fallacious path of pleasure and dissipation, they are still supported and borne up by a very feeble and slippery, and tender prop, and if not seriously and instantly consider their dreadful situation, may die in their sins, and cry out too late in the greatest misery and the bitter pangs and agonies of severe and conquering death, Lord, save us, we perish. Sinners delight in laying snares for the innocent and virtuous, and encourage and invite many a thoughtless and giddy youth, by the wages of sin, that all the ways of Satan are pleasing, amiable, and enviable, and prosperous, but they are deceitful on the weights; they are lighter than vanity itself, they are full of ungodliness and wrong, and will haunt the wicked person even in his latter days, to overthrow him. Prosperity in worldly affairs, often makes a man think that he shall never know adversity, and while he is supported by art and flattery, believes it; but this is not a life consisting entirely in prosperity. Man is a composition of good and evil, and in order to escape adversity and enjoy prosperity, he must suffer the one with patience and resignation in the early part of his life, and as he advance forward, he shall bear it patiently, and supported by hope, on his future expectation, shall be rewarded with prosperity, clothed and adorned with that simple and never fading dress and attire of virtue and chastity, subduing and conquering the gaudy and presumptuous attacks of vice, arrogance and pride.