So much for profession without practice. So much for true doctrine
with dishonest and unholy lives. So much for outward respectability
with inward sinfulness. So much for hating idolatry, while all the
while men's hearts are far from God!
Oh! my friends, let us all search our hearts carefully in these times
of high profession and low practice; lest we be adding our drop of
hypocrisy to the great flood of it which now stifles this land of
England, and so fall into the same condemnation as the Jews of old,
in spite of far nobler examples, brighter and wider light, and more
wonderful and bounteous blessings.
XXI--THE UNFAITHFUL SERVANT
But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his
coming; and shall begin to beat the men servants and the maid
servants, and to eat and drink and to be drunken; the lord of that
servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an
hour when he is not aware, and will cut him asunder, and will appoint
him his portion with the unbelievers.--LUKE xii. 45, 46.
But why with the unbelievers? The man had not disbelieved that he
had any Lord at all; he had only believed that his Lord delayed his
coming. And why was he to be put with those who do not believe in
him at all? This is a very fearful question, friends, for us, when
we think how it is the fashion among us now, to believe that our Lord
delays His coming.
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