Now, let me ask, What testimony must God bear respecting you ?
[He knows every one amongst you, and every secret of your hearts: yet will he not proceed in judgment without adducing the proofs which you had given of your true cha- racter. If he say to you, " Come, ye blessed," or, " Go, ye cursed," he will assign his reasons for it, and thereby approve the equity of his sentence before the whole universe l. Let me ask, then, What sacrifices have you made for him ? and what duties have you performed ? Have you " plucked out the right eye, and cut off the right hand, that has offended you ?" If not, you know the sad alternative, that " your whole body and soul will be cast into hell firem." Examine yourselves, then, and inquire, whether God can bear this testimony re- specting you ? Must he not rather, with respect to the greater part of you, say, ' I know you, that " you have not the fear of God before your eyes" !" You have made no sacrifice for me ; nor have you paid any attention to my commands. Abraham consulted not even his own wife, lest she should prove a snare to him : but you have been ready to follow any adviser that would counsel you to disregard me.' Well, know of a surety that the time is shortly coming, when God will call every one of you into judgment, and when he will put an awful differ- ence between his friends and his enemies ; between those who feared his name, and those who feared him not0.]
1 Matt. xxv. 34 — 43. m Mark ix. 43—48. n Rom. iii. 18.
0 Mai. iii. 18.