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If you keep on sinning, you will finally suffer such a death
of the soul. Not in this world, perhaps, will know all this means.
Some touch, some little forekn. [foreknowledge] of it the wicked may feel in this world.

God is trying to keep you from falling into this great mischief.
And when you sin, you do more than displease him, you resist him.
You refuse to be helped by him. It is as if you were about to fall in
to a well, & you wouldnt [wouldn't] let your father keep you back! A hard heart
that is, which shows itself out so. Think, if that heart is not yours.

Cant [Can't] say your heart will be better after dying than before. A San F. [San Francisco]
sinner shipped, not sure he will stop sinning in N.S.. A soul shipped
from time, not sure he will not sin in eternity. Rather, he will keep on;
Sin & suffer there. Character goes with us; can't get rid of it. It is
our very selves. It is the soul badly shaped, & forever undone; fallen
into everlasting mischief.

Remember before you came to Cal. [California]. Any better now? Any worse? Is
it a wicked country? Well, you needn't be wicked. And, take care, lest
you find a worse one, in "That undiscovered" &c. [et cetera].

1. See what a dreadful thing it is to harden your hearts, selves.

2. See what mischief you will do to others, by hardening the heart.

3. See what a store of mischief you lay up for the other world.

4. See what you will lose by losing the friendship of God; & what
a mischief, every way, it is, to harden your hearts!!