Haft BAITH IN ITS LOWEST nEGEEES: distant borders of the camp looked and were saved : But such obstinate wretches must be unpitied in death. Attend then, ye sinners in Zion, and hearken to the voice of God the Saviour. Christ has been brought near to 'you in his gospel, his promises, and his holy ordinances ; you have read of him in his word, youhave heard him speak by his ministers, and you have learned much ofhim from the instructions ofyour pious parents : Ye have begun to see something of him in his glory and grace ; and will you now turn your eyes away from him ? Will you look upon the vanities of the present evil world, and frx the eye of your souls, your desires, hopes, and wishes, upon trifles and impertinence, and neglect the offer of heavenly trea- sures ? Have you seen and heard so much of Christ already, that you have grown weary of him? Are the Lord and his salvation grown cheap and common things to you, of little value, not worth a look ?? Will you who are near to the kingdom of heaven; refuse to enter in, and let those that come from the ends of the earthobtain the inheritance, and seize the happinessbefore you ? O how aggravated will your condemnation be ? How dreadful the agonies of your terment, to see perishing sinners comefrom distant regions, from the east and the west, from poor wicked families, and houses of iniquity, and receive the salvation of Christ? while you are cast into outer darkness? There shall be weeping and wailing andgnashing ofteeth? Mat. viii. 11, 12. IV. The last use I shall make of this discourse, is to take a short survey of that salvation, of the happiness and the holi- ness thereof, that is derived to a soul by a sincere look of faith to Jesus the Saviour. O what a blessed change is made by our looking to Christ ! A change, I say, in the very eye-sight of our souls, and in our view and survey of all things round about us, so far as we have any concern in them ! What a blessed change in our judgment and esteem of them ! We look upon things with another eye than before, and things put on a new face. Faith looking to Christ for salvation, sets all things in a different light before the eyes of the soul, and gives quiteanother view ofthem. It is like someheavenly glass applied to the organ of sense, that not only assists and improves our sight, but repre- sents every thing to us in a divinelight, even suchas they appear to the blessed spirits above. 1. It alters the view and appearance of all the great and gay things of this life. All the treasures, and pomp, and enter-, tainments of this world, were once the most tempting objects we could look upon ; but now we, look on the world, with all the gayest andrichest scenes of it, as a little mean and despicable thing ; for we have seenChrist and heaven ; and when the world begins to' flatter us again, and to look great and tempting in our eyes, let us look againto Jesus, andhis salvation ; that theworld may lose its splendour and allurements.
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