These are our circumstances. We have been often rained on. Oh! how numerous—how valuable have been our privileges! From our infancy we have had the Bible to read, and the Gospel to hear; and most of us have read the Bible, and heard the Gospel. The labours of pious parents and pious ministers have been expended on us; “the powers of the world to come” have been brought to bear on us; plain statements of the meaning and evidence of divine truth have been often laid before our minds, and pressed on
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