Say not, 'It is no matter what a man believes, provided he is sincere.' God has settled this question.--"_Because they received not the love of the truth_, _that they might be saved_; _God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie_; _that they all might be damned, who believed not the truth_, _but had pleasure in unrighteousness_." Is there not then, appalling evidence, that those, who hold such preaching in contempt, occupy very perilous ground, and exhibit fearful tokens of the divine abandonment? And especially might not the angels in heaven tremble for those, who have enjoyed great light and privileges--have witnessed rich displays of divine grace--and have once felt a deep solicitude for their own souls--but who now despise and hate those truths, and that cause, which they were once _almost persuaded_ to embrace? How clearly and terribly, my hearers, does this subject discover the ungodliness of the unrenewed heart. Those feelings of contempt and hostility, towards what is most precious and glorious in the view of God, constitute the summit of human guilt. That feeble worms of the dust should thus dare to sit in judgment on the divine administration, and pronounce that needless which God has declared indispensable, and call that folly which God esteems the highest wisdom, is not merely presumptuous;--it is inexpressibly _impious_. How resistless is the evidence, hence arising, of the necessity of an entire change of heart--an entire change of feeling--to prepare men to dwell with God. No wonder then, that our Lord should declare with such emphasis, _Ye must be born again_, or ye _cannot see the kingdom of God_. I beseech you, fellow sinners, lay these things seriously to heart. Do any of you habitually hear the preaching of the cross with heartless indifference--with a light and trifling temper? Beware, lest your heart become fatally hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. Are any of you conscious of disgust and aversion, produced by such doctrines? O, beware, lest that come upon you which is spoken in the prophets, Behold, ye dispisers, and wonder, and perish: Beware lest you convert the bread of life into the poison of death!