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FAITH
IN ITS LOWEST DEGREES.
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on
those who
look to him
from
the
ends
of
the
earth
?
The
enemy,
even
the most
malicious
and
powerful ene-
my,.
whose
name
is
Abaddan,
or the destroyer,
is
but
a
creature
;
but
the friend, the mighty and merciful friend,
whose
name
is
Jesus,
or the
Saviour,
is
God,
even
Im-
manuel,
God
with
us.
When
he
stands
upon the throne
of
his
mercy,
and
cries
out
to
perishing sinners,
look
to
me fi°am
the
ends
of
the
earth,
and
be
saved; not
all
the
powers
of
hell sháll
be
able
to
destroy the sinners
that
look to
hire,
and
accept of
his
salvation.
What a
glorious
relief
is
found
in my
text
against
all
temptations
to despondency.? Your Saviour
is
God,
and
there
is
none
besides
him.
3d Reflection.
How much
do
those
sinners deserve
to
perish
for ever, who will
not
be
saved
upon
such
gra-
cious terms
?
In
vain do you
turn your
eyes
around
you,
and
look
to
one
creature,
and
seek
to another, for
help
;
your ruin
is
too
great, and
your
misery
too
deep
and
dismal, for any power
but that of God,
to raise and
recover
you.
If
they who refused to
hear
the voice
of
Moses, who spake from
earth, died
without
mercy,.
of
how
much
sorer
punishment
shall
ye be
thought
worthy,
"
who refuse to
hearken to the
voice
of
God
speaking
from
heaven
?"
Heb.
x.
28, 29.
Can
you
ever imagine
it
possible
that
you
should escape the divine vengeance,
"
who
neglect
so
great,"
so
divine a salvation
?
Consider,
ye
sinners,
that
are
this day
under
the
Ball
of grace, though
now you seem to be as
it
were
at
the
ends
of the
earth,
afar.
off
from
God
and Christ, from all
that
is
holy,
and all
that
is
happy,
yet
you
are not utterly
abandoned
to
destruction,
while,
the voice
of
mercy
sounds
in
your
ears.
But take
heed
that
ye
hearken
while
ye
are called
to day;
lest
ye
perish before the
morrow
come.
Remember
this,
that
the
silver,
trumpet of
mercy
will
not
always
sound
:
Christ
Jesus
will
not
always
say;
look unto
me
and
be
saved.
Ye are
now
upon the
con-
fines
of
hell
;
if
once
death
open
its
dark
gates,
and
hell
has
shut her
mouth upon you, you
wilt
then
b.e
far out
of
the sight
of Jesus
the
Saviour, and
beyond the call
of
his mercy for
ever.
Let
me
turn
my
voice
now
for a
few
minutes to the
gospel
Israel, to
the
children
of
the kingdom. While
I
have been inviting the
ends
of
the
earth
to be
saved,
and.
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