grace, and the sending of angels to keep off the fiends. _Where is the_ GOD _of Judgment_! Where, brethren, is He not, and when not acting? This world is the throne of judgment. Every moment is the trial time. Every act, every word, every thought, brings down upon it, on the instant, the sentence and the execution of the sentence! Think of this and act upon it. The eyes of the LORD are over the righteous. The face of the LORD is against them that do evil. Strive, then, each action to approve to His all-seeing eye. Know that it is always Advent; that the books are always open, and the judgment always set, and the sentence ever ready, “Blessed—or Cursed,” and angels and demons looking out and waiting for the signal of approach. The Last Judgment is the climax of the Death Judgment, the Death Judgment of the Life Judgment. Gain GOD’S approval here, and keep it here, and you shall not lose it hereafter. Forfeit it here, and obtain it not again here, and you can never have it. There is no condemnation for them that are in CHRIST JESUS. The rest are already condemned; though the GOD of Judgment gives them yet the chance—(oh! let them not trifle with it!)—that if they will appeal quickly, a fresh trial may be granted; and if they have made CHRIST their Advocate, the former sentence shall be reversed, and they, too, shall be blessed! SERMON III. THE WORLDLING REPROVED. ST. JAMES, IV., 13, 14, 15. _Go to now_, _ye that say_, _To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city_, _and continue there a year_, _and buy and sell_, _and get gain_: _Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow_. _For what is your life_? _It is even a vapour_, _that appeareth for a little time_, _and then vanisheth away_. _For that ye ought to say_, _If the_ Lord _will_, _we shall live_, _and do this_, _or that_. “GO TO.” It is the language of rebuke, of remonstrance, and yet of exhortation. “Come, come, what are you doing? cease from it, for it is wrong. Come, let us reason together, ye that are forming worldly schemes, and laying out plans and works for the future, counting not only on _some_ continuance, but even on a definite time of your own marking out, ‘We will continue there a year.’ Come, I say, be wise; consider what your life is, how brief, how fleeting, how easily taken away—how uncertain of continuance—and rule and consecrate every part of it, every work, every prospective thought, with the limitation, ‘If the LORD will.’” Thus is the worldling reproved and exhorted—the man who is so foolish as to reckon surely upon what he knows is very uncertain, who is so sinful as to forget the providence of GOD, or at least not to submit himself to it. And, further on he is plainly told that this reckless confidence is sin:—“Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.”