F.).Q2 ON HIGH PROFESSION and " the day of small things," that they have no patience with persons professing hope, and despise every advance short of assurance. To judge of them by their conversa- tion, they seem to have as firm a certainty of their own security, as of the danger of all the rest of the world that is, of all those who do not see with their eyes, hear with their ears, and dis- cuss in their dialect. You would sup- pose salvation a very easy attainment, to see them got so much above hopes or fears. Surely eternal happiness is not s cheap a thing, as that any should plead their claim to it on slight grounds. Some who talk confidently of this cer- tainty, do not give strong indications in their life, of their having entered in at " the straight gate" which leads to it. If it costs as few sacrifices, and required as little diligence, as some exhibit, there would not be so many who need doubt of their admission. Seek, strive, run,
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