Psalm 9: 17;
11:6.
6. Remember that a profession is not worth a pin, if they that make
it do not depart from iniquity. James 2:16, 17.
7. Remember that thy death-bed will be very uneasy to thee, if thy
conscience at that day shall be clogged with the guilt of thy
iniquity. Hos. 7: 13, 14.
8. Remember that at the judgment-day Christ will say, Depart from
me, to those that have not here departed from their sin and
iniquity. Luke 13:27; Matt 25:41.
Lastly, Remember well, and think much upon what a blessed reward the
Son of God will give to them at that day, that have joined to their
profession of faith in him a holy and blessed conversation.
He that will depart from iniquity must be well fortified with faith
and patience and the love of God; for iniquity has its beauty-spots
and its advantages attending on it; hence it is compared to a woman,
Zech. 5: 7, for it allureth greatly. Therefore I say, he that will
depart there-from had need have faith; that being it which will help
him to see beyond it, and that will show him more in things that are
invisible, than can be found in sin, were it ten thousand times more
entangling than it is. 2 Cor. 4:18. He has need of patience also to
hold out in this work of departing from iniquity.
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