indeed thrice dead you must be, "if you do not feel yourselves roused by these awful things to diligence and vigor in the christian life." Is there any thing you would not do to rescue your immortality from the doom of ungodly men.

"Let me solemnly urge you to make your calling and election sure, to resist temptation, to overcome iniquity, to keep the faith, that you may finish your course with joy. Look steadfastly, Christian, for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of the great God, even our Saviour, Jesus Christ, that when he, who is the believer's life, shall appear, you may appear with him in glory."

2. But are there not many in this house whose lives furnish no evidence that they are the saints of the most high God? You, too, are interested yea, most fearfully interested in the great day of the Lord. All shall stand before the judgment seat of Christ. All of us shall hear "the call of the archangel," and rise from the grave; all of us shall see the Judge descend, the judgment of the final day revealed, the books opened. Who of us will appear there to receive the sinner's last sentence.

That doom is terrific, overwhelming, eternal, irrevocable. Must it be heard? Shall it be? Whose heart does not tremble at the thought that it may be all his own? When the mountains quake, the hills melt and the earth is burnt up at the presence of God; all the wicked will be filled with consternation and despair. Who can stand before the divine indignaton? who can abide the fierceness of his anger? What emotions will be felt by every impenitent man, when it is all over with him, and he is lost-lost irrecoverably! Is he ruined, undone? Is there no hope Oh, his bursting heart! He cannot bear his doom. He cannot endure everlasting burnings. How would his bosom "heave with delirious ecstacy to hear of another day of grace!" another word of mercy from the Saviour; another opportunity of repentance.

"But no day of grace will ever return to him ;" no voice of mercy will ever reach him. He goes to his home, dark, dreadful, eternal. He has gone! Oh! he has gone. "The doors of heaven will be opened no more." "Not one gleam of hope," age after age, as eternity moves on, not one gleam of hope will ever dawn on the regions of sin and sorrow, where he dies, and dies forever

"Oh, that ye were wise, that ye understood these things, that ye would consider your latter end!"

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