Transcribed from the [1810s?] Augustus Applegath and EdwardCowper edition ,

CHRISTIANS
AND
INFIDELS.

LONDON:
Printed by Augustus Applegath andEdward Cowper
Duke-street, Stamford-street;
Sold by F. Collins, 56,Paternoster-row; and Evans and Sons
42, Long-lane, Smithfield.

Price One Penny.

p.2CHRISTIANS ANDINFIDELS.

“If there is one condition inlife more happy than another, it is surely that of him who foundsall his hopes of futurity on the promises of theGospel.”—These are the words of a respected author,and deserve the consideration of every one.

The hour of death puts these principles still more strongly tothe test than any events of our lives.  There are many menwho laugh at the Bible, and reject the idea of a Saviour, andsay they are happier than those who are shackled with therestraints of religion.  They say they arehappier; yet their lives generally prove the falsity ofthe assertion, and their deaths always do.  Their death-bedsshew the miserable state of those who thus reject the hope thatis set before them; and, when contrasted with the last hours ofbelievers, the difference appears still more strongly marked.

A strong instance of this is stated in a letter from the Rev.J. Hervey to the well-known Beau Nash of Bath.  It is asfollows:—

“Sir, I was not long since called to visit apoor gentleman, erewhile of the most robust body, and of thegayest temper I ever knew.  But when I visited him; Oh! howwas the glory departed from him!  I found him no more thatsprightly son of joy which he used to be; but languishing, piningaway, and withering under the chastening hand of God.  Hislimbs feeble and trembling; his countenance forlorn and ghastly;and the little breath he had left, sobbed out in sorrowfulsighs!  His body hastening apace to lodge in the silentgrave, the land of darkness and desolation.  His soul justgoing to God who gave it; preparing itself to wing away unto itslong home; to enter upon an unchangeable and eternal state. When I was come up into his chamber, and had seated myself on hisbed, he first cast a p.3most wishful look upon me, and then began, as well as hewas able, to speak.  ‘Oh! that I had been wise, that Ihad considered my latter end.  Ah! Mr. Hervey, death isknocking at my doors: in a few hours more I shall draw my lastgasp; and than judgment, the tremendous judgment! how shall Iappear, unprepared as I am, before the all-knowing, andomnipotent God?  How shall I endure the day of hiscoming?’  When I mentioned, among many other things,that strict holiness, which he had formerly so slightly esteemed,he replied with a hasty eagerness: ‘Oh! that holiness isthe only thing I now long for.  I would gladly part with

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