*It was the principal scope of all my discourses for several months, (after having taught the people something of the being and perfections of God, his creation of man in a state of rectitude and happiness, and the obligations mankind were thence under to love and honour him,) to lead them into an acquaintance with their deplorable state by nature: their inability to deliver themselves from it: the utter insufficiency of any external reformation, or of any religious performances, to bring them into the favour of God. And thence to shew them their absolute need of Christ to save them from the misery of their fallen state.――To open his all-sufficiency and willingness to save the chief of sinners.――The _freeness_ and _riches_ of his grace, proposed “without money, and without price.”――And thereupon to press them _without delay_ to betake themselves to him, under a sense of their misery and undone estate, for relief and everlasting salvation.――――And to shew them the abundant encouragement the gospel proposes to, perishing, helpless sinners, so to do. *And I have often remarked, that whatever subject I have been upon, after having explained the truths contained therein, I have been _naturally_ and _easily_ led to Christ as the _substance_ of every one. If I treated on the being and glorious perfections of God, I was thence _naturally_ led to discourse of Christ as the only “way to the Father.”――If I attempted to open the misery of our fallen state, it was natural from thence to shew the necessity of Christ to undertake for us, to atone for our sins, and to redeem us from the power of them.――If I taught the commands of God, and shewed our violation of them, this brought me in the most easy way, to speak of the Lord Jesus Christ, as one who had “magnified the law” we had broken, and who was “become the end of it for righteousness, to every one that believes.” And never did I find so much freedom and assistance in making all the various lines of my discourses meet together, and center in Christ, as I have frequently done among these Indians.