hell-fire will open the eyes of both.

The soul with some is the game, their lusts are the dogs, and they
themselves are the huntsmen; and never do they more halloo and lure
and laugh and sing, than when they have delivered up their soul,
their darling, to these dogs.

I may safely say, that the most of men who are concerned in a trade,
will be more vigilant in dealing with a twelvepenny customer, than
they will be with Christ when he comes to make unto them by the
gospel a tender of the incomparable grace of God.

SINFUL EASE.

'Tis true there is no man more at ease in his mind--with such ease
as it is--than the man that hath not closed with the Lord Jesus, but
is shut up in unbelief. Oh, but that is the man that stands
convicted before God, and that is bound over to the GREAT ASSIZE!
that is the man whose sins are still his own, and upon whom the
wrath of God abideth; for the ease and peace of such, though it keep
them far from fear, is but like to that of the secure thief that is
ignorant that the constable standcth at the door: the first sight of
an officer makes his peace to give up the ghost. Oh, how many
thousands that can now glory that they were never troubled for sin
against God--I say, how many be there that God will trouble worse
than he troubled cursed Achan, because their peace, though false and
of the devil, was rather chosen by them than peace by Jesus Christ,
than peace with God by the blood of his cross.

Awake, careless sinners, awake, and arise from the dead, and Christ