. Short sermons to little children . ee for refuge to Jesus must hate all sin. You must lovewhat God loves. And you must do allthis now, in this life, or you must be un-done for ever. This life may close in a>day, or an hour. The very wood out ofwhich your coffin is to be made, maynow be in a shop close by you. If youdie without pardon and grace, you willfor ever utter the bitter cry: The har-vest is past, the summer is ended, andwe are not saved.* May God in infi-nite mercy save you from an end soterrible. * Jer. viii. 20. NOW IS THE TIME. 115 PRAYER. 0 Lord, thou openest thy ha
. Short sermons to little children . ee for refuge to Jesus must hate all sin. You must lovewhat God loves. And you must do allthis now, in this life, or you must be un-done for ever. This life may close in a>day, or an hour. The very wood out ofwhich your coffin is to be made, maynow be in a shop close by you. If youdie without pardon and grace, you willfor ever utter the bitter cry: The har-vest is past, the summer is ended, andwe are not saved.* May God in infi-nite mercy save you from an end soterrible. * Jer. viii. 20. NOW IS THE TIME. 115 PRAYER. 0 Lord, thou openest thy hand, andsuppliest the wants of every living hast fed, and kept us all our hast a right to our time and toour hearts. But we have sinned againstthee. Still thou art gracious, and artable to save even us. Help us to feelthat now is our time. Let us not liveanother day in sin. In mercy, 0 Lord,give us new hearts. Let us not put offthe great work of life for another ask all for the sake of Jesus Christ. SERMON XV. ®f)e Cast Jtobgment*And the looks were opened.—Rev. xx 12. There is much said in the Scripturesabout books. Solomon says, of makingmany books there is no end.* In oneplace we read of a great revival of reli-gion, when many of them, which usedcurious arts, brought their books together,and burned them before all men; andthey counted the price of them, andfound it fifty thousand pieces of books treated of magic, &c. Somebooks are so bad that they ought to beburned, lest they may do harm. Somebooks are good, and ought to be read. Some*Ecc. xii. 12. tActs xix. 19. 116 THE LAST JUDGMENT. 117 are so good that they ought to bestudied. Daniel studied books, ch. ix. was careful of his books.* He saidto Timothy, give thyself to )-The word Bible is a Greek word, andmeans book. We call the word of GodThe Bible, because we mean to saythat it is The Book, that is, that it isthe very best of books, the book of te
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