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security and avarice, but the devil's wall that we should keep ourselves from
Verse 9. He saith to me. Write, Blessed are they that are called. That which is written by God is sure a concluded thing. The saints' happiness is not, He said is add she died; God has-booked your heaven and your happiness if ye be called to the Lamb's marriage supper.— As the wicked man's hell is booked and written of God, and sealed up among his treasures, so vengeance is laid up for him, Deut. xxxii.— Be glad and rejoice, O believers, your salvation is past nto the great seal, this testament is confirmed with Carist's blood. Say se, the testamen is written, but my name is not there.
Answ Neither Abraham's nor David's names are in it yet it is sure enough. A father leaves an inheritance to be divided equally among his sons; ilk one has no more ado but to prove that he is a son, then he falls to his part of the inheritance. We err oftentimes in our applying either promises or threatning: You make a question of God's part of Christ died for you, and loved you; make ay sure your own part, and take to fear of God's part. If ye ask for whom Christ died? I answer, For all that lean to him be who they will. Take ay to you, till Christ say. I died not for you. A cord is cast down in a hollow pit, to draw you up, and a hundred more for you; if ye dispute, Is the cord cast down for me? I will tell you how ye shall answer that doubt, grip and hold fast by it for your life, and out of question then it was cast down for you. If ye take the offer, question not his good will; step in, Christ's good-will will not ask. To whom pertain ye? And if the ask, say ye, I am thine. If he deny it, beye
