But how can they help fearing that Christ will
not hear them--that after all His offers and gifts in this life have
been despised, He will give nothing after death but death; and that
it were better for the sinful, worldly sham Christian, when lying in
his coffin, if he had never been born? How can those escape who
neglect such great salvation?
Ah, my friends--my friends, take this to heart! Blessed, indeed,
are the eyes which see what you see, and hear what you hear;
prophets and kings have desired to see and hear them, and have not
seen or heard! But if you, cradled among all these despised honours
and means of grace, bring forth no fruit in your lives--shut out
from yourselves the thought of your high calling in Jesus Christ;
what shall be your end but ruin? He that despises Christ, Christ
will despise him; and say not to yourselves, as many do, We are
church-goers--we are all safe. I say to you, God is able, from
among the Negro and the wild Irishman--ay, God is able of these
stones to raise up children to the Church of England, while those of
you, the children of the kingdom, who lived in the Church of your
fathers, and never used or loved her, or Christ, her King, shall be
cast into outer darkness, where there shall be weeping and gnashing
of teeth.
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