The instant a man becomes a Christian, he de- votes himself to the service of Christ in all that he is, and has, and hopes to possess. He is, in the strong language of Scripture, a living sacrifice, and whether bethinks of the eternal God coming down from hea- ven, and, in human nature, enduring such agonies, that he might be raised to glory — or reflects that Christ is now in heaven again, waiting till many souls be brought to glory, till all his enemies be made his footstool — or looks upon the countenances of the men that pass along the streets, and remeinbers that they must all live throughout a long eternity, and that for that eternity few of them are pre- pared — or upon the changeless glories of heaven or the dread solemnities of a judgment day — the endless torments of the regions of woe — upon waiting expecting angels — upon the zeal of his fellow- Christians — upon the cold indifference of others — upon all the objects of the spiritual world around him, and all the hurrying ...
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