To preach
against sin in general without descending to particulars may lead many to
complain of the evil of their hearts, while at the same time they are
awfully inattentive to the evil of their conduct.' Take Evangelist's
noble counsels at the gate of Vanity Fair, and then take John Bunyan's
masterly description of the Fair itself, with all that is bought and sold
in it, and you will have a lesson in evangelical preaching that the
evangelical pulpit needed in Bunyan's day, in Robert Hall's day, and not
less in our own.
'My sons, you have heard the truth of the gospel, that you must through
many tribulations enter the Kingdom of God. When, therefore, you are
come to the Fair and shall find fulfilled what I have here related, then
remember your friend; quit yourselves like men, and commit the keeping of
your souls to your God in well-doing as unto a faithful Creator.'
OBSTINATE
'Be ye not as the mule.'--David.
Little Obstinate was born and brought up in the City of Destruction. His
father was old Spare-the-Rod, and his mother's name was Spoil-the-Child.
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