And where shall I then see you?
Shall I see any of you on the left hand of Christ, and hear him say,
"Depart, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and
his angels?" O, if I should hear that dreadful sentence pronounced
against you, how would my heart die within me. How could I bear to hear
it. Oh, I could not--I could not bear to hear it. My dear children, if
you are yet out of Christ, I entreat you, _at this very moment_, to lay
down this book, and throw yourselves at the feet of your Saviour. Tell
him, that you are lost sinners, deserving to be cast into everlasting
burnings. Tell him, that though you have been wicked children, you will
leave off your wickedness, and be his for ever. Plead with him, with as
much earnestness as a _drowning_ man would plead with you to save him,
to give you the influences of his Holy Spirit, to create within you a
clean heart, and renew within you a right spirit, without which you are
eternally undone; and continue to plead, until he pardons you, and
receives you as his children. By all the sufferings of the Son of God,
by all the joys of heaven, by all the torments of hell, by the
solemnities of your dying bed, by the value of your immortal souls
_which, if once lost, must be lost for ever_, I beseech you thus
_immediately_ to throw yourselves at his feet, and plead with him to
make you his.
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