2. And your second danger in connection with your minister is, that you
have, and may have long had, a good minister, but that you still remain
yourself a bad man. My brethren, be you all sure of it, there is a
special and a fearful danger in having a specially good minister. Think
twice, and make up your mind well, before you call a specially good
minister, or become a communicant, or even an adherent under a specially
good minister. If two bad men go down together to the pit, and the one
has had a good minister, as, God have mercy on us, sometimes happens, and
the other has only had one who had the name of a minister, the
evangelised reprobate will lie in a deeper bed in hell, and will spend a
more remorseful eternity on it than will the other. No man among you,
minister or no minister, good minister or bad, will be able to sin with
impunity. But he who sins on and on after good preaching will be beaten
with many stripes. 'Woe unto thee, Chorazin! Woe unto thee, Bethsaida!
For if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre and
Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
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