There is pastoral preaching; rich revelation of divine
truth; high, elevating treatment of the Christian mysteries; and he is
the pastor to me who does not come to my house to drink and smoke and
gossip and show his littleness, but who, out of a rich experience, meets
me with God's word at every turn of my life, and speaks the something to
me that I just at that moment want.' Let us not have less pastoral
visitation in the time to come, but let us have more and more of such
pastoral preaching.
5. But, my brethren, it is time for you, as John said to the elect lady
and her children, to look to yourselves. The salvation of your soul is
precious, and its salvation is such a task, such a battle, such a danger,
and such a risk, that it will take all that your most watchful minister
can do, and all that you can do yourself, and all that God can do for
you, and yet your soul will scarcely be saved after all. You do not know
what salvation is nor what it costs. You will not be saved in your
sleep. You will not waken up at the last day and find yourself saved by
the grace of God and you not know it.
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