you have no part or lot with God's believing people. I pray you, lay this matter to heart, and seek, ere it be too late, the blessings purchased for you by the Redeemer of the world ]
2. The over-confident professor —
[Some there are who will pronounce the words of our text with the same unhallowed confidence, as if there were no condemnation awaiting any child of man. But, brethren, your state and character should be tried, before you claim the privilege belonging to God's faithful people. "If ye walk after the flesh, ye shall die," whatever ye may imagine to the contrary : " If ye be Christ's, ye will surely crucify the flesh with its affections and lusts" ]
3. The timid and doubting Christian —
[Some, because they still feel within themselves the work- ings of corruption, will doubt whether they can by any means belong to Christ. But the very text intimates, that there will yet be the flesh stirang within us ; only, that, if we be Christ's, we shall not " walk after it." Say then, my dear brethren, do you. find your pleasure in earthly things? Is it not, rather, painful to you that you cannot more entirely mortify all earthly desires, and find all your comfort in the things of God ? I say not this, to encourage or sanction a slothful habit ; but I say it in order to " strengthen your hands that hang down," and to shew you, that, if, with Paul, you are constrained to cry, " O wretched man that I am ! Who shall deliver me?" you should also add with him, "I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord."]