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SEAM.
VIII.
FALLING SHORT
OF
HEAVEN.
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advantage, and take up
their
cross,
and
follow
their
Lord,
till they
are
all
joined
to
the glorious assembly
above, and made possessors
of
everlasting riches!
Amen.
HYMN
FOR
SERMON
VII.
A
HOPEFUL
YOUTH FALLING SHORT OF HEAVEN.
LONG
MUST
all
the
charms
of nature then,
So
hopeless
to
salvation
prove?
Can hell
demand, can heaven condemn
The
man whom
Jesus
deigns to love
?
The
man, who sought
the
ways of
truth,
Paid
friends and neighbours
all
their due,
A
modest, sober,
lovely youth,
And thought he wanted nothing
now
?
But
mark the change
:
thus spake the
Lord,
Come
part
with
earth
for
heaven
to
day
:
The youth
astonisb'd.atthe
word,
In
silent sadness went his way.
METRE.
Poor virtues,
that
he boasted
so,
This
test unable
to
endure,
Let
Christ, and grace and glory go,
To make
his
land
and money sure
!
Ah
foolish
choice
of treasures here
!
Ah
fatal
love
of tempting gold
!
Must this
base world
be
bought
so
dear
!
And life
and heaven
so
cheaply
sold
?
In vain the
charms
of nature
shine,
If
this vile passion governs me
:
Transform
my soul,
O
love divine
!
And make
nie
part
with
all
for
thee:
SERMON
VIII.
A
HOPEFUL YOUTH FALLING SHORT OF HEAVEN
DIARK
X.
21.
Then
Jesus
beholding him,
loved him,
THE SECOND PART.
WHEN
our
Saviour dwelt upon earth,
he
found
a
young
man in
the
coasts
of Judea, that
preferred the
riches
of
this world
to
all
the
treasures
of heaven; and
yet
Jesus
cast an
eye
of
love
upon
him.
In
the foregoing discourse
upon
these words,
it
has
been
considered what
sort of
love
Christ
could
shew
to
a man, whose
soul
was
so
vain
and carnal
;
and what
good
qualities
appeared
in
this youth,
that
could engage
the
love
of our
Saviour,
notwithstanding
the
guilt
of
his
covetousness; and
some
remarks
were made
upon
a man
so lovely,
and
so
beloved
of
Christ.
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