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scripture to confirm the truth, we are not commanded to stop by the way, but to continue to the end of life, for together we stand, and if we are divided we are sure to fall; look well to the point and judge for yourselves in order for a proof of this, that there is a possibility of a man, after believing in grace, that he may, by his wicked action and deeds, that he will cause the power of God and the revelation of the righteous judgments of God upon his own head, and if he does not repent, must be lost. Math. 10. Read it if you please. Math 27: 5. Now think for yourselves whether a murderer has eternal life abiding in him. Luke 22: 3.
I perceive, according to my judgment, that Judas was a good man, but by neglect of duty, though the devil was out of him he then entered into Judas, surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve, one of whom the Lord had given commission to go forth and cast out devils in his name, and to heal the sick, and to cleanse the leprosy; &c. Now we see that this was a chosen man of our blessed redeemer, and stood on a level with the rest of the apostles, and was given the same authority; but previous to the death of our Lord, we see him in three points. 1st. as a Judas. 2d. As a deceiver or betrayer. 3d. As a murderer; and wo be unto that man in whom the Son of Man is betrayed. It would be better for that man that he had never been born. Acts 15: 25. "Judas, by transgression fell that he might go to his own place. "This is the awful condition of such person or persons, after receiving a commission to go forth to deliver the same, if by neglect of attending to their duty in a temporal sense, they are punished according to the laws of the country; at the same time the temporal law cannot hurt the soul, but a commission delivered to a man to deliver to others, that their souls may enjoy the benefits thereof, and he neglects to deliver that commission, the soul must appear before that same tribunal to answer the charge, for not discharging their duty, and then if guilty, he must depart from God and the glory of his power, for this reason we are commanded to search the scriptures, for our own satisfaction that we may get a proper understanding and a just conception of the things that make for our peace in time and in eternity, for it is said that none of them is lost but the
