304 SERMON PREACHED ON THE ISLAND. 
your respective households, lest He pluck 
you away, and there foe none to deliver you! 
" Do, I beseech you, seriously reflect on 
what has been said this morning. It is the 
last day of the year ; and who may be per- 
mitted to see the close of the approaching 
year, God only knows. Do but seriously 
and frequently reflect on, and act as persons 
that believe, such important truths, and you 
will not neglect either your own spiritual 
welfare, or your family's. And though, after 
all your pious endeavours, some may con- 
tinue unreformed, yet you will have this 
comfortable reflection, that you did what 
you could to make your families religious, 
and therefore may rest assured of sitting 
down with Abraham, Isaac, Cornelius, Han- 
nah, Lydia, Mary, and Dorcas, and all the 
godly families, who, in their several genera- 
tions, shone forth as so many lights in their 
respective households upon earth. Now the 
Lord Jesus Christ, who is God over all, 
blessed for ever, assist and watch over you, 
and keep you from all evil and sin here, and 
present you before his Father faultless at 
the great day of account. 
