No cross, no crown : $b a discourse shewing the nature and discipline of the holy cross of ChristPenn, William
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No cross, no crown : $b a discourse shewing the nature and discipline of the holy cross of Christ
Penn, William
Christian life; Christian life -- Quaker authors; Self-denial -- Early works to 1800
IV. But if the impenitence of any is so great, their pursuit of
folly so earnest, and notwithstanding what has been thus seriously
offered to reclaim them, they are resolved to take their course, and
not to be at leisure for more divine things, I have this further
to leave with them from the Almighty, who first called me to this
work: that tribulation, anguish, and sorrow, (Rom. ii. 4, 5, 6,
9,) shall make their dying beds; indignation and wrath shall wind
up their days, and trouble and vexation of mind and spirit shall
be the miserable fruits which they shall reap, as the reward of
all their wretched folly and rebellion! Be not deceived, God will
not be mocked: (Gal. vi. 4-8,) it is so irreversibly decreed,
Whatever is sown here, shall be reaped hereafter. And just is the
Almighty, to make good his determinations upon such, who, instead of
employing the time given them to work out their salvation with fear
and trembling, have spent it in the pleasures of the flesh, which
perish; as if their heaven were here. Nor can it seem unreasonable,
since He hath thus long waited with remission of sins, and eternal
life in his hand, to distribute to them that repent: that if
such will not, to recompense so great obstinacy and love of this
perishing world, with everlasting tribulation. (Rev. iii. 20, xxi.
27, xxii. 13-15.)
V. But I am otherwise persuaded of many: yes, I am assured the
mercies of the everlasting God have been so extended to many, that
this will prove an effectual call to bring them out of the ways
and customs of this corrupted and corrupting world; and a means of
establishing such, who hitherto have been unfaithful to what they
have been already convinced of. And you, my friends, whose minds
have received the alarm, whose hearts have truly heard the voice of
one crying in the wilderness, where you have been straying from the
Lord, Repent! repent! To you, in the name of the great and living
God, I speak, I cry, Come away, come away: ah! what do you do there?
Why are you yet behind? That is not your rest; it is polluted with
the sins and vanities of a perishing world: gird up your loins: eye
your light, one in all, Christ Jesus, the same yesterday, to-day,
and for ever: who hath enlightened every one: (John, i. 9:) follow
Him, He will lead you to the city of God, that has foundations, into
which the wicked cannot enter.
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