you could not enumerate in detail a correct catalogue of your sins for any one day of your life. But when you stand before God, all will be enumerated; the complete history of your whole life will be detailed, from the first passionate struggle in the cradle, even to the last convulsive motion on the bed of death: all the iniquities scattered over the wide surface of many years, shall be collected into one terrific view. And not only so, but the history of your heart as well as of your outward conduct will be set with appalling faithfulness before your eyes; the history of that heart which you have never known, never truly and impartially examined; of that heart to which you have been so indulgent, and by which you have been continually deceived; ; of that heart which you have so often called kind, and tender, and affectionate, and good, but which the word of God calls desperately wicked. O, what lusts and passions have had their dwelling in that heart; what envy, hatred, and malice; what shameful desires a thousand times courted and indulged! What mean disgraceful motives which you have endeavoured to hide even from yourself, but which have indeed been the secret spring of almost all your conduct. When to these, you add all the sins which you have been the occasion of in others, when you reflect upon all the souls whom your conversation has corrupted,

whom your advice, or your example, or your direct seduction has hurried into everlasting ruin; and when to this fearful list, you add your multitudes of omissions also, the indolence, the negligence, the uselessness by which a great part of your life has been marked; dearly beloved brethren, who among you may abide the day of God's coming? who shall be able to stand when he appeareth? When in his combined character of King and Judge, he shall ascend the throne of his glory, and shall separate the sheep from the goats; when he shall say to the latter, " depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels."

Every word of this sentence is fraught with horror. Depart from me: not indeed from my presence, for even in hell you shall feel with bitterness, that it is impossible to escape from. me: but depart from my favour, in which alone there is happiness to any soul. And not only so; (this separation would of itself be misery to you, but) there is something more than this: actual punishment is to be inflicted. Depart from me, ye cursed; without any place of refuge to fly to, into fire; without any prospect of release, into everlasting fire; and without any soothing companions to mitigate your wretchedness, fire prepared for the devil and his angels,

If any thing can add to the alarm of this

fearful sound of judgment; it is, that the reason assigned for the infliction of these eternal torments, is nothing more than the OMISSION of relative duties, the want of tender compassion, and the neglect of active kindness towards the poor of Christ's flock: for, making common cause with those who believe in him, and speaking of them as of himself, he says in vindication of his sentence already pronounced, "for I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thristy, and ye gave me no drink : I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. Verily, I say unto you, inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these my brethren, ye did it not to me."

Think of this fact, and anticipate this judgment, my brethren, when opportunities offer of relieving the sick and needy, and of visiting the fatherless and widows in their affliction. "Deal thy bread to the hungry; and bring the poor that are cast out, to thy house: when thou seest the naked, cover him; and hide not thyself from thine own flesh." Dearly beloved, I "charge you to do good, to be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to commucate laying up in store for yourselves a good foundation against the time to come, that ye may lay hold on eternal life." "God is not unrighteous, to forget your work and labour of glod is a

love, which ye have showed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister." For look again towards the judgment seat of Christ.

"To them on his right hand, the King shall then say; Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." Here every word is fraught with extasy. Come; you have been serving me in the outer courts of my temple, occasionally catching in the eye of faith, a glimpse of my spiritual beauty; now, come near, faith is no longer needful, you shall henceforth have the open vision of my glorious Majesty: ye blessed of my Father; he blessed you, when he chose you to eternal salvation, and gave you to me in covenant; he blessed you when he sent me to die for you; when he sent the Comforter to call you to a right knowledge of my redemption; to iufluence you to repent and bring forth fruits meet for repentance; to give you faith and hope, and love, transforming you into the likeness of my holy character; to lead you along the paths of righteousness; and now in the end, to bring you to everlasting felicity: inherit the kingdom; no mean inheritance, heirs of God, and joint heirs with me, a kingdom is your possession prepared for you; a peculiar state of existence, a union with me in my glorified human nature, and with my Father through me, such as no other creatures, not even the holy

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angels, have ever enjoyed, but which was specially prepared for you :* from the foundation of the world, not a plan of yesterday, not an after-thought of God, devised as a remedy for an evil which had arisen unforeseen; no? it was his design concerning you before your first parents were created: it was ordered in all things and sure, from the foundation of the world. Come, therefore, ye blessed of my Father, inherit your glorious Kingdom, "For I was an hungred and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: naked and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thristy, and gave thee drink? when saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick or in prison, and came unto thee? And the King shall answer, and say unto them, verily, I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." He that persecuteth them, persecuteth me: he that showeth kindness to them, showeth kindness to me for they are one with me. "Ye have therefore done well, good and faithful servants;

* John xvii. 20 to 24.