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Apply it to sinners.

1. Think on your ways. Duties neglected-sins committed their number and aggravation--thousands of sins have been forgotten-God remembers all. 3. Think of the end of your ways.

How short your course-increased velocity-near to death-end of these things is death-how solemn!-how will thine heart endure ?-O that you were wise.

4. Think on your ways-not be forever thinking and talking about the sins of others. This is very common-what folly to be thus employed.

5. Turn your feet. No use to think unless you turn-turn to God-all by nature traveling the wrong way. Turn ye, turn ye-turn your affections from the

love of sin.

6. You must make haste and delay not.

Say not suffer me first to go and bury my father— or to bid farewell. If you delay

Business will crowd in.
Temptations will increase.

Sins will become more numerous.
Heart will become more hard.

By becoming familiar with awful subjects they will

lose their effect upon you.

The Spirit will cease to strive.

And death may come.

Lose no time. Zaccheus,

make haste. Felix-escape for thy life.

Who will rise up for me against the evil doers? Or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?-PSALM Xciv: 16.

This is the language of Christ.
I. The grounds of this appeal.

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1. Christ has a moral kingdom in this world.

2. In building up his kingdom, he makes use of human instrumentality.

3. Much yet remains to be done.

But a small part

of the world yet belongs to the kingdom of Christ.

II. What can be done?

1. Give up yourself.

2. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

3. Make personal efforts for the advancement of

Christ's kingdom.

4. Contribute of your substance.

III. Reasons for so doing.

1. Christ claims your service.

2. He has a right to it.

3. If you do not render it, you will be ranked among the workers of iniquity, and will be destroyed.

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When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door.-MATTHEW Xiii: 25.

The house heaven.

I. The door of heaven is opened.

By whom? Rev. iii: 7, 8. "These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and no man shutteth," &c. How? By his sufferings and death.

For whom?

"Who gave himself a ransom for

all." "Tasted death for every man." judge if one died for all.”

II. The door will be shut.

"We thus

When? At death—when the Spirit ceases to strive. By whom? By Christ the master of the house. How long will it be shut?

Forever. He that is holy--holy still. He that is filthy--filthy still.

When the door is shut some will be shut out, and some will be shut in.

If it should now be shut, where should we be found?

Reflections.

1. How happy those who will be shut in.

2. How wretched those who will be shut out.

Agree with thine adversary quickly, while thou art in the way with him, lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison; verily I say unto thee, thou shalt by no means come out thence till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.—MATTHEW V: 25.

1. God is the sinner's adversary-adversary at law. 2. Sinners are now on the way to judgment.

3. The sinner is called upon to agree with his adversary—but two ways of settling a controversy-by compromise, or by the yielding of one of the parties, In this controversy, the sinner must yield.

4. What sinners do, must be done quickly. Motives to agree quickly.

1. God is a powerful adversary. "What king going to make war." "Let the potsherds"-" Who eɣer hardened himself against God and prospered?" "Can thine heart endure, or thy head be strong."

2. The cause will certainly come to trial, "We must all stand before the judgment seat of Christ." 3. The sinner dying unreconciled to God will certainly be lost.

4. Once lost, he will be lost forever. Uttermost farthing.

5. "Lest at any time--in health-in youth—while anxious or stupid--in the midst of wickedness-awake or asleep at any time the sinner is liable to be arrested."

Turn ye, turn ye, for why will ye die ?-EZEKIEL XXXiii: 11.

Death what? Not natural death, or the death of the body--God never asks sinners why they will die in this sense-and in this sense they will die, whether they turn or not.

There is a death beyond the grave.

Turn-Implies that sinners are departing from God. To turn is to repent-to turn the affections to God. Why will ye die?

Not because God delights in your death. live, saith the Lord," &c.

"As I

There is usually some one sin which occasions the sinner's death--that is, some one sin which he is unwilling to give up.

The young ruler was sad when Christ told him to sell all. Herod could not part with Herodias. There is generally some right eye which the sinner is unwilling to pluck out.

1. One will die because his heart is engrossed with worldly cares.

2. Another, because he is ashamed to have it known that he is anxious.

3. Another, because he is unwilling to give up at some sinful companion.

4. Another, because he is unwilling to leave his profession.

5. Another, because he is unwilling to pray in his family.

6. Another, because he is unwilling to confess Christ before men.

7. Another will lose his soul by talking about others. 8. Pride of consistency will keep some out of heaven. They fear that if they commence a religious life they will not hold out, and so will not begin.

9. Some will lose their souls by spending their time in caviling at divine truth.

10. Others will perish in consequence of cherishing some secret sin, known only to God, and their own consciences.

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