as to cause the Holy Dove to take its everlasting flight. Forty years was he grieved at the disobedience of ancient Israel, and said—"They do alway err in their hearts, and they have not known my ways. So I sware in my wrath, they shall not enter into my rest."[1] Take warning, then, my brethren, from this example, lest you fall under the same awful condemnation. That you have repeatedly opposed the friendly counsels, warnings and entreaties of the Spirit, you cannot deny. He has often called you to partake of the waters of life, and you have as often refused to hear; he has stretched out his hand to deliver you from the snares of the devil, but you have disregarded his kind intervention. Still he waits to be gracious unto you, notwithstanding your past ingratitude and innumerable provocations. Though your sins be as scarlet, He is ready and willing to make them as white as snow Let his
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- ↑ Hebrews, iii., 10, 11.
