Do we address one who is a professed unbeliever in the truth, or rather, who "believes a lie,"--that there _is_ no Saviour? We ask such a one to consider what the certain, or even _probable_ consequences will be to him, if all we have said is nevertheless true? What if you shall see Jesus Christ face to face, and have your whole outer and inner history, as it _is known to God_, minutely revealed to your own mind, and to the assembled jury of the universe? Will your thinking, or saying, that the whole is a fiction, make it so? Will your scoff at God's revelation of the future prevent the dead from rising, or the Judge from appearing? Will a foolish jest, or a proud callousness, or a subtle argument, or a brave indifference to what others fear, enable you, on the resurrection morning, to shut your ears against the sound of the last trump, or to disobey the summons of the Son of God to rise from the tomb, and to appear before Him? And if no unbelief can change the will of God, or make that false which He proclaims to be true, nor alter His prescribed order in things to come, no more than it can do His present order in the starry heavens,--what can you say to Jesus Christ in your own defence? How can you, in consistency with His Word, so justify your own opinions and conduct, as to make it _possible_ for Him to say to you, "Well done, good and faithful servant, enter into the joy of _thy_ Lord?" But, blessed be God! the same Word of truth which condemns the sinner, and shuts out all hope of safety to him, _while in his state of unbelief and ungodliness_, invites him, and commands him, to come out of that state, and to share the life which is in Christ for every man. We cannot repeat it too often that Jesus offers immediate pardon and life through faith in His blood, to the chief of sinners--to the oldest and most bitter enemy which He has upon earth! Jesus offers His Spirit to every man, to enlighten his understanding, renew his will, and spiritualise his taste and affections, and shed abroad the love of God in his heart; so that even thou, whoever thou art, mayest yet love, and be loved by, Jesus Christ and His saints for ever and ever! "_Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and_ THOU _shalt be saved_!" But should His long-suffering patience, and abundant mercy, and rich love, fail to gain your heart,--should you "_prefer_ darkness to light," and "remain in unbelief," and live and die without Him,--how can you escape? Is it not righteous that you should walk in the darkness which you love, and be separated from your Saviour and His people, whom you dislike, and be permitted "to eat of the fruit of your _own_ way, and be filled with your own devices?" On "the great and terrible day of the Lord," you will, alas! be "_convinced_" that the sentence pronounced upon you by the Saviour, of "Depart from me!" is but an echo of what your own heart is now saying to Him! Hear, I beseech you, the words of warning which God now