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must walk more warily; more awe must you have of the presence of our Lord, more fear of His searching eye. Oftentimes, even always, should you have these words standing before your souls, "Thou God seest me." Go forth into the world with these words ever ringing in your ears, and they will often hold you back from sin; they will check you when you are beginning to yield; they will help by God's grace to stay your hand; they will bid you to stand in awe and sin not. O say this in every place, say it to yourself in your home, in your fields, in your leisure, in your business, in your solitude, in your intercourse with others, in your thoughts, in your conversation, "Thou God seest me." They are good words written for your good, and may, like angels, stand oftentimes between you and your destruction.

WHY WILL YE DIE?

"WHY will ye die ?" Thus does the voice of divine Love speak to your soul. Why do you choose death, and rush blindly on towards destruction? Why are you bent on your own perdition? Why will you fling away your soul? Have you no care for yourself, no true love for yourself? "I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God." It could not be otherwise; God cannot wish to have His own children cast into hell. It must be grief, it must be sorrow to our Lord to condemn any single soul, for our Lord has tasted death for every man, has borne every man's punishment in Himself; if therefore after all His suffering on the cross, all His agony, all His love, any soul perishes after all and refuses to be saved, surely it must be great sorrow to this most loving Saviour, to this good Shepherd who gave His life for His sheep. Can He have endured such great things for your soul, can He have come down from heaven, taken

upon Him our flesh, and died the death of man. and then care little whether you are saved or lost? Surely He must greatly care. He willeth not the death of a sinner, nay, He desires the life of all, the life of every one for whom He suffered that shameful, bitter death. came to seek and to save that which was lost. Is all His toil to be in vain ? or is His toil for you to be in vain? Are you determined to be lost?

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Remember also the love of God the Father ; will you set this at nought? Remember how it is written, that "God so loved the world, that He gave His only-begotten Son, to the end that all that believe in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." And so also did God the Holy Ghost join in this work of love; for it is written that Christ "through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God."

See then all this love, this great love for your soul. Will you not be moved by the

wondrous love that God has shewn? Even now He calls to you from heaven; He pleads with you; He beseeches you to return from your evil ways; He warns you of your peril; He speaks anxious words of entreaty when He sees you yielding yourself to sin and neglecting His holy will. "Why will ye die? O turn, turn and be

saved; turn while there is yet time; hell is before you; you are drawing near to everlasting death; why do you thus become an enemy to yourself, when I, your Lord and God, would raise you up into heaven, would set you in heavenly places, would give you of My own joy, would make you partake of those pleasures which are at My right hand for evermore, would save you from utter destruction, would ransom you from hell, would rescue you from the power of the devil and his angels ?" After this manner does God speak. Throughout the whole of Scripture the same entreaties are multiplied a thousand times; every where you are pressed to turn unto the Lord, to return to the Bishop and Shepherd of your soul, to put away the evil of your doings, to repent, to flee from the wrath to come, to resist the devil, to seek the Lord while He may be found, that iniquity may not be your ruin, to cast away all your transgressions.

O hear these words of exhortation. I beseech you by the mercies of Christ do not deafen your heart. Fall on your knees and pray for help, pray for deliverance from sin. You have served sin in time past; O break the yoke now. What

would it be to be lost in hell! think of the torments of the lake of fire; think of the worm that

dieth not, and the fire that is not quenched; think of going on even for ever and ever dying such a death, ever dying and yet never becoming dead, dying eternally! How very terrible to be condemned at the last day, to have the voice of divine love turned into the voice of divine wrath, and that wrath all the greater because of the greatness of the love that you despised. I charge you to stop, nay, not I, but God Himself, God your Saviour, the most merciful Jesus, who once bled for you, suffered for you, gave His life for you, at this very time charges you to stop, to cease from all your sins, to turn your feet from every evil way, to seek forgiveness for all evil already done, through His most precious blood. Will you not listen to such a voice as His? Do not delay; the day of death is at hand; the day of judgment is at hand; the world will soon be burnt up. Will you be lost? Have you no care for yourself? Are you resolved to give yourself to devils? If not, turn and live, turn at once to Christ, turn to your Lord.

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