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SERM.
XXXVIII.,
THE
CHRISTIANS
TREASURE.
137
of
his
goodness shall
call
for
greater
degrees
of
vengeance
at
his awful
judgment
seat.
Thus
neither
the light
of
the
sun,
nor the fruits of the earth,
neither
day
nor
night,
are
yours
;
for
you abuse them
to sinful
purposes,
and
they
yield you no
real
profit:
And
if
things
present are not
yours,
if
ye
have
no so-
lid
and lasting benefit
by
them, much
less
can
you
pre-
tend to
claim
any
comfortable share
in
the things
that
are
to
come..
"there
is
a
heaven
of happiness provided
for
the
saints,
but
you
are utterly unprepared
to fulfil
the
business
of
it,
or
to
taste
the blessedness.
There
is
no
room nor
place
there
for
You.
There
is
nothing
glorious
and
delightful among
all
the promises
of God,
or
all
the
joyful
scenes
of
the
world
to come,
that
you can claim
any title
to,
nor
have you any
interest
in them.
When
hell shall
open
its
mouth indeed,
to
receive millions
of
the damned, according
to the final
sentence of the
Judge,
there
you
will
find a
place
and room provided
for you
;
but
it
is
an uneasy
and dreadful
one.
Hell
is
yours, the
vengeance
of God
is
yours, endless misery
is
yours;
you have been
treasuring
up wrath against the
day
of
wrath
;
and
you can claim
nothing
but
this
painful por-
tion,
this dismal
and everlasting
inheritance.
And can
you
be
content
with
such
a
pórtion
as
this
is,
while
the saints are
inheritors
of
all
that
is
holy
and hap-
py,
both
in
this world
and the next
?
O
may
your
busy
thoughts
be
awakened betimes, and make
you
ever
rest-
less
and uneasy in
your present wretched estate
!
Re-
turn
to
the
Lord
in
humble
riourning,
for
all
your past
iniquities
:
Return
to
God
speedily, from whom you
have wickedly
depart
)_
:Lòath
yourselves because
of
your
aborninationç
,
and
abandon
every idol
:
Say
to
him,
my
Father:fin
the
spirit of
faith
and penitence, and
he
will
put
you
among the children, and
give
you
a
goodly
heritage
;"
Jer.
iii. 19.
Seek
acquaintance
with
Jesus
the
Son
of
God,
the
Saviour, the
Lord and
Heir of
all
things
;
commit
your
souls to
his
hands, resign yourselves
entirely
to his
grace,
that
he may
change
your
unholynatures
by his
Spirit,
that
he may
cleanse away your guilt
by
the blood
of
his
atonement;
that
he may give you an
interest
in his
own
riches
;
then
the
covenant
of
his
love shall sanctify to you