11. Knowest thou, that _in Jesus Christ, neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith that worketh by love_; but a new creation? Seest thou the necessity of that inward change, that spiritual birth, that life from the dead? That holiness? And art thou throughly convinced, that _without it, no man shall see the Lord_? Art thou labouring after it? _Giving all diligence, to make thy calling and election sure? Working out thy salvation with fear and trembling? Agonizing to enter in at the straight gate?_ Art thou _in earnest_ about thy soul? And, canst thou tell the Searcher of hearts, _Thou, O God, art the thing that I long for_! Lord, thou knowest all things! Thou knowest that I _would_ love thee! 12. Thou hopest to be saved――but what reason hast thou to give of the hope that is in thee? Is it because thou hast done no harm? Or, because thou hast done much good? Or, because thou art not like other men; but wise, or learned, or honest and morally good? Esteemed of men, and of a fair reputation? Alas, all this will never bring thee to God. It is in his account lighter than vanity. Dost thou _know Jesus Christ whom he hath sent_? Hath he taught thee, that _by grace we are saved through faith? And that, not of ourselves. It is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast._ Hast thou received the faithful saying as the whole foundation of thy hope, _Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners_? Hast thou learned what that meaneth, _I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance? I am not sent, but to the lost sheep?_ Art thou (he that heareth, let him understand!) lost, dead? _Damned already?_――Dost thou know thy deserts? Dost thou feel thy wants? Art thou _poor in spirit_? _Mourning_ for God and refusing to be comforted? Is the prodigal _come to himself_, and well-content to be therefore thought _beside himself_, by those who are still feeding upon the husks which he hath left? Art thou willing to _live godly in Christ Jesus_? And dost thou therefore _suffer persecution_? Do _men say all manner of evil against thee falsely, for the Son of man’s sake_? 13. O, that in all these questions ye may hear the voice that wakes the dead, and feel that hammer of the word, which _breaketh the rocks in pieces!――If ye will hear his voice to day, while it is called to day, harden not your hearts._ Now _awake thou that sleepest_ in spiritual death, that thou sleep not in death eternal! Feel thy lost estate, and _arise from the dead_. Leave thine old companions in sin and death. Follow thou Jesus, and _let the dead bury their dead. Save thyself from this untoward generation. Come out from among them, and be thou separate, and touch not the unclean thing, and the Lord shall receive thee, Christ shall give thee light._