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END
Or
TIME.
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and
introduce
you
into
his
Father's presence
with com-
fort:
This
is
a day
of
hope for the
vilest
and most
hate-
ful
criminals
;
but if
you
continue
to refuse, he
will
shortly
swear
in his
wrath,
you shall never
enter
into
his
kingdom, you shall
never taste
of
the provisions
of
his
grace,
you
shall
never
be
partakers of
the blessings
pur-
chased
with
his
blood. Heb.
iii.
11, 18.
"
I
sware in
my
wrath,
saith
the Lord,
they
shall
not
enter into
my
rest."
Oh the
dreadful state
of
sinful
creatures,
who
conti-
nue
in such obstinacy,
who
waste away the means
of
grace and the seasons
of
hope,
week
after
week,
and
month after month, till the day
of
grace
and hope
is
for
ever
at
an end with them
!
Hopeless creatures
!
Under
the power
and
the
plague
of
sin,
under
the
wrath
and
curse
of
God,
under the eternal displeasure
of Jesus,
who
was
once
the minister
of
his
Father's
love,
and
they
must abide
under
all this wretchedness through
a
long
eternity, and
in
the
land
of
everlasting despair.
But
I
forbear
that
theme
at
present,
and proceed.
V.
At
the moment
of
our death
"
the time
of
our pre-
paration
for
the hour
of judgment,
and for the
insurance
of
heaven and happiness
shall be no
longer." Miserable
creatures
that
are summoned
to
die thus
unprepared
!
This
life is
the
only time
to
prepare
for
dying,
to
get
ready
to
stand
before the
judge
of
the
whole
earth, and
to secure our
title
to
the
heavenly blessedness.
Let
my
heart
enquire,
"
Have
I
ever seriously
begun to
prepare
for a
dying hour, and to
appear
before the
Judge
of. all
?
llave
I
ever
concerned
myself
in
good
earnest, to secure
an interest
in
the heavenly
inheritance,
when this
earthly
tabernacle
shall
be
dissolved
?
Have I ever made
inter-
est for the favour
of
God,
and a share
of
the
inheritance
of
the saints,
by
Jesus
the
great Mediator,
while he
af-
forded
life
and
time
?"
Death
is
daily
and
hourly hastening
upon us:
Death
is
the king
of terrors, and
will fulfil
all his
name
to
every
soul
that
is
unprepared.
It
is
a
piece
of
wisdom
then
for
every one
of
us,
since
we must.
die, to
search
and
feel
whether
death
has
lost
its sting or
no.:
Whether it
be
taken
away
by
the blood
of
Christ? Is
this
blood
sprinkled
on
my
conscience,
by
the humble exercise
of
faith
on a dying
Saviour? Are the
terrors of death re-
moved,
and
am
I prepared
to
meet
it
by
the'sanctifying
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