Religion & morality > Choice drop of honey from the rock, Christ, or A word of advice to saints and sinners

WORD OF JDV ICE
A WORD of advice to my own heart and thine :
Thou art a profefTor, and partakeft of all the ordi¬
nances, thou doll well, they are glorious privileges ;
but if thou haft not the blood of Chrift at the root of
thy profeflion, it will wither, and prove but painted
pageanty to go to hell in.
Try and examine every day, on what bottom thy
profellion and hope of glory are built, and whether
is was laid by the hand of Chrift, if not, it will never
endure the ftorm that muft come againft it. Satan
will throw it down and great ■will be the fall there¬
of.
Glorious profeflbr ! thou (halt be winnowed ; eve¬
ry vein of thy profeftion will be tried to purpole : tis
terrible to have it all come down, and to find no¬
thing to build upon.
Soaring profeftor ! fee thy waxen wings betimes;
they will melt with the heat of temptations. AVhat
a milery is it to trade much, and break at length ;
and to ha\e no ftock, no foundation laid for eterni¬
ty.
Gifted profeiTor! look there be not a worm at the
root, that will ipoil all thy fine, gourd, and make if
die about thee in a day of fcorching; look over thy
'foul daily, and a(k, Where is the blood of Chiift to
be feen upon it ? What righteoulcels is it that 1 itaiid
upon to be favfcd ; have I got otf all my leii-righteoul-
nefs ? Many eminent profit-ifors have come at length
to cry out, undone, undone, to all eternity.