35. Surely, you are not wise! What advantages do you throw away! What opportunities do you lose? Such as another day you may earnestly seek, and nevertheless may not find them. For if it please God to remove _us_, whom will you find to supply our place? We are in all things _your servants for Jesus sake_; tho’ the more we love _you_, the less we are loved. Let _us_ be employed not in the highest, but in the meanest; and not in the easiest, but the hottest service. Ease and plenty we leave to those that want them. Let us go on in toil, in weariness, in painfulness, in cold or hunger, so we may but testify the gospel of the grace of God. The rich, the honourable, the great, we are thoroughly willing (if it be the will of our Lord) to leave to _you_. Only let us alone with the poor, the vulgar, the base, the outcasts of men.――Take also to yourselves _the saints of the world_: but suffer us _to call sinners to repentance_; even the most vile, the most ignorant, the most abandoned, the most fierce and savage of whom we can hear. To these we will go forth in the name of our Lord, desiring nothing, receiving nothing of any man (save the bread we eat, while we are under his roof) and let it be seen whether God has sent us. Only let not _your_ hands, who fear the Lord, be upon us. Why should we be stricken of _you_ any more? IV. 1. Surely ye are _without excuse_, all who do not yet know the day of your visitation! The day, wherein the great God, who hath been forgotten among us, days without number, is arising at once to be avenged of his adversaries, and to visit and redeem his people. Are not his judgments and mercies both abroad? And still, will ye not learn righteousness? Is not _the_ Lord _passing by_? Doth not _a great and strong wind_ already begin _to rend the mountains_, and to _break in pieces the rocks before the Lord_? Is not the _earthquake_ also felt already? And _a fire_ hath begun to burn in his anger. Who knoweth what will be the end thereof? But at the same time, he is speaking to many in _a still, small voice_. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear, lest he be suddenly destroyed, and that without remedy! 2. What _excuse_ can possibly be made for those, who are _regardless_ of such a season as this? Who are at such a crisis, stupid, senseless, unapprehensive; caring for none of these things? Who do not give themselves the _pains_ to _think_ about them, but are still _easy_ and _unconcerned_? What! can there ever be a point, on which it more behoves you to _think_? And that with the coolest and deepest _attention_? As long as the heaven and the earth remain, can there be any thing of so vast importance, as God’s last call to a guilty land, just perishing in its iniquity!