them, when it shall be said unto them, Go, ye unto men once to die, but after this the judgment. Heb. ix. 27. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. Eccl. ix. 10. The Lord thy God pared for the is among you, a mighty God and terrible. Deut. vii. cursed, into the fire everlasting, which is pre devil and his angels. 9. There fore, breth ren, take we while the day the night none can we have the 21. The voice of the Lord is full of majesty, the voice of the Lord shaketh the wilderness. Psal. xxix. 4. 8. Righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne. Psal. xcvii. 2. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? and then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. Matt. vii. 21, 22, 23. Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment. Matt. xxv. 41. 46. 9. Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any heed betime, time we should let them slip. For if the word of salvation spoken by angels was steadfast, and every translasteth; for gression and disobedience received a just recompence cometh when of reward; how shall we escape, if we neglect so work. But great salvation. Heb. ii. 1, 2, 3. See that ye refuse let us, while not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not light, believe who refused him that spake on earth, much more in the light, shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven. Heb. xii. 25. For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day not cast into of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is ness, where the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvaIS weeping tion. 2 Cor. vi. 2. Take heed, brethren, lest there and gnashing of teeth. be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. Heb. iii. 12. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to and walk as children of the light, that we be utter dark 10. Let us not abuse the God, who calleth us and of his past, if with true heart we return unto him. pass, and to stand before the Son of man. Luke xxi. 36. I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day; the night cometh, when no man can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. John ix. 4, 5. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. John xii. 35, 36. Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Eph. v. 16. Take the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents. And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Matt. xxv. 28. 30. Woe unto them! to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. Jude 11. 13. 10. Despisest thou the riches of his goodness and goodness of forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? mercifully to Rom. ii. 4. Seeing that thou our God hast punished amendment, us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us endless pity such deliverance as this; should we again break thy promiseth us forgiveness of commar.dments, wouldest not thou be angry with us that which is till thou hadst consumed us? Ezra ix. 13, 14. a perfect and The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him. Psal. ciii. 17. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. Isa. lxiii. 9. I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. Jer. xxxi. 34. Return unto me; for I have redeemed thee. Isa. xliv. 22. Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Jer. iii. 22. Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the Lord your God; and the Lord will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you. Jer. xxvi. 13. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him. Isa. lv. 7. The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. 2 Chron. xvi. 9. 11. For though our sins be as red as scarlet, they shall be made white as snow; and though they be like purple, yet they shall be made white as wool. Turn ye (saith the Lord) from all your wickedness, and your sin shall not be your destruction. Cast away from you all your ungodliness that ye have done: Make you new hearts, and a new spirit: Wherefore will ye die, O ye house of Israel, seeing that I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God? Turn ye then, and ye shall live. 12. Although we yet have we an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; 11. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Isa. i. 18. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions : so iniquity shall not be your ruin. Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God; wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye. Ezek. xviii. 30 to 32. Purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Psal. li. 7. Turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God. Jer. xxxi. 18. 12. My little children, these things write I unto have sinned, you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous and he is the Propitiation for our sins and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. 1 John ii. 1, 2. Surely he hath borne our and he is the griefs, and carried our sorrows; he was wounded Propitiation for our sins. for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquiFor he was ties: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; our offences, and with his stripes we are healed. The Lord hath for our laid on him the iniquity of us all. Isa. liii. 4, 5, 6. wickedness. We have sinned, we have done wickedly. Dan. ix. wounded for and sn.itten 15. All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a Propitiation through faith in his blood. Rom. iii. 23, 24, 25. Ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins. 1 John iii. 5. It is Christ that died, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Rom. viii. 34. Herein is love, not that we loved God, 13. Let us therefore re turn unto him, who is the merciful receiver of all true peni tent sinners; 14. Assur that he is but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the Propitiation for our sins. 1 John iv. 10. Christ hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. 1 Pet. iii. 18. 13. Come and let us return unto the Lord for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. Hos. vi. 1. Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not keep anger for ever. Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God. Jer. iii. 12, 13. O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Take with you words, and turn to the Lord say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously. Hos. xiv. 1, 2. I will arise and go unto my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. Luke xv. 18, 19, 20. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. Mal. iii. 7. They shall return even to the Lord, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them. Isa. xix. 22. 14. Thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive, ing ourselves and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon ready to re- thee. Psal. lxxxvi. 5. The Lord was ready to save me. Isa. xxxviii. 20. Him that cometh unto me I will in no wise cast out. John vi. 37. ceive us, and most willing to pardon us, if Repent, we come unto and turn yourselves from all your transgressions. Ezek. xviii. 30. Let the wicked forsake his way, him with faithful re we submit ourselves unto him, and from henceforth pentance; if and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, for he will abundantly pardon. Isa. lv. 7. I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth. walk in his Luke xv. 7. If the wicked will turn from all his will take his sins that he hath committed, and do that which is ways; if we easy yoke, den upon us, be ordered by ance of his in our voca tion with ing: lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not and light bur die. All his transgressions that he hath committed, to follow him they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righin lowliness, patience, and teousness that he hath done he shall live. Ezek. charity, and xviii. 21, 22. The Lord will speak peace unto his the govern- people, and to his saints: but let them not turn Holy Spirit; again to folly. Psal. lxxxv. 8. Now be not stiffseeking al-necked, but yield yourselves unto the Lord. 2 Chron. ways his glory, and serv- XXX. 8. Yield yourselves unto God, as those that ing him duly are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. Rom. vi. 13. thanksgiv- And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob: and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. Isa. ii. 3. Now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul. Deut. x. 12. Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart. They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways. Psal. cxix. 2, 3. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. 2 Cor. vi. 17, 18. Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Matt. xi. 28, 29, 30. With all lowliness and meekness. Eph. iv. 2. In lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Phil. ii. 3. Let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus. Heb. xii. 1, 2. Above all things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. Col. iii. 14. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Gal. v. 25. As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. Rom. viii. 14. Glorify God in your body, |