These men go whither they will, do what they will; they may range
from opinion to opinion, from notion to notion, from sect to sect,
but are steadfast nowhere: they are left to their own uncertainties;
they have not grace to establish their hearts; and though some of
them have boasted themselves of this liberty, yet Jude calls them
wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for
ever. They are left to be fugitives and vagabonds in the earth, to
wander everywhere but to abide nowhere, until they shall descend to
their own place, with Cain and Judas, men of the same fate with
themselves.
Look thou certainly, fruitless professor, for an eternal
disappointment in the day of God; for it must be; thy lamp will he
out at the first sound the trump of God shall make in thine ears;
thou canst not hold up at the appearance of the Son of God in his
glory; his very looks will he to thy profession as a strong wind is
to a blinking candle, and thou shalt he left only to smoke.
Oh, the alteration that will befall a foolish virgin. She thought
she was happy, and that she should have received happiness with
those that were right at the heart; but behold the contrary: her
lamp is going out, she has now to seek for saving grace, when the
time of grace is over; her heaven she thought of has proved a hell,
and her god has proved a devil.
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