The thunders of Sinai may roll, and tell him of those eternal calamities that await the ungodly beyond the grave; the sweet notes of redeeming love poured forth from an angel's voice will all be in vain, so long as the adversary of souls can contrive to keep him from a train of regular, sober thinking. The great Jehovah thus complained of his ancient people. "I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his masters crib: but Israel doth not know my people doth not consider."[1] The same complaint may be justly entered now. Against every impenitent soul here in divine presence, the Holy Spirit may justly urge the want of due consideration, as the great reason why his holy influences have not hitherto had their designed effect in each case. God has made our salvation to depend upon a cordial and hearty belief of the truth as it is in Jesus. "With
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- ↑ Isa. i., 2, 3.
