or their pleasures, are all far more interesting subjects to them than their souls. — It is an awful state of mind to be in, but awfully common. Let us search our own hearts, and take heed that it is not our own. Open sin may kill its thousands ; but indifference and neglect of the Gospel kill their tens of thousands. Multitudes will find themselves in hell, not so much because they openly broke the ten commandments, as because they made light of the truth. Christ died for them on the cross, but they neglected Him.
Let us observe, in the last place, that all false profes- sors of religion ivill he detected, exposed, and eternally condemned at the last day. The Lord Jesus tells us, that when the wedding was at last furnished with guests, the king came in to see them, and " saw a man which had not on a wedding-garment." He asked him how he came in there without one, and he received no reply. And he then commanded the servants to " bind him hand and foot and take him away."
There will always be some false professors in the Church of Christ, as long as the world stands. In this parable, as Quesnel says, " One single castaway represents all the rest." It is impossible to read the hearts of men. Deceivers and hypocrites will never be entirely excluded from the ranks of those who call themselves Christians. So long as a man professes subjection to the Gospel, and lives an outwardly correct life, we dare not say positively that he is not clothed in the righteousness of Christ. But there will be no deception at the last day. The unerring eye of God will discern who are His own people, and who are not. Nothing but true faith shall