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The APPLICATION of the Doctrine.
The last thing propounded in the method of this subject, is the use and application of it—to bring it down to our own hearts—and to work this truth upon our minds, consciences, and affections. And now, O that God would help me, and Christ would help me, and the blessed Spirit of God and Christ would so help me—and give me lively words , a lively heart , a lively and inflamed love to blessed Jesus, and to your immortal precious souls!
O that I might speak and apply this great truth, as befits a man who truly believes that every one of you in this congregation this day, must be Anathema when Maranatha —if you live and die void of love to Jesus Christ!
O that I might speak and apply this great truth, as befits a man who truly believes that each of you must either be blessed or cursed, either be damned or saved forever—as you are prevailed with, or not prevailed with, to give Christ your hearts, and hearty love!
O that I might speak and apply this great truth, as befits a man who truly believes your everlasting state is much concerned in this one point that now is before us!
Alas! Methinks I see the great multitudes that this Anathema will fall upon! Methinks I see the Lord a-coming! Methinks I hear the trumpet sounding, and the voice calling to the dead, "Arise, and come to judgment! Come, you cursed souls , who have been in the infernal lake—and appear before my judgment bar! Come, you cursed bodies —awake, arise, and stand before my judgment-seat! Let those cursed souls be again united to those cursed bodies—and now be both cursed together, and cursed forever, and let both be inseparably linked together to endure this curse to all eternity! Methinks I see them coming—but unwillingly! They come, but with fear and trembling, with horror and amazement.
Now! What can be done now? Now, Maranatha —and now every one of us who did not love that Lord who now has come—must be Anathema . Oh woeful souls! Oh miserable sinners! Oh cursed wretches! What shall you do now? Where shall you go now?
"What shall we do now?" We should have asked this question before this day, that the Lord has come. Do? We should have done that which we did not do—and now must go thither, where we would not go! O that we might rather cease to be—than to be what we must forever be; and go , from whence we never must return; and feel what will make us cry and roar, toss and rage, and be forever restless—and the more restless, because hopeless and remediless. Oh, sirs, my heart is pained, my joints shake with trembling—lest any of you in this place, should fall under this curse, when the Lord shall come!
The USES of this doctrine shall be:
1. By way of inference or instruction—what things from hence may be deduced and learned.
2. Of reprehension or reproof—showing the aggravations of lack of love to the Lord Jesus Christ.
3. For examination or trial—distinguishing the non-lovers of Christ from such as sincerely love him.
4. By way of entreaty or exhortation—that as you would escape this curse, be careful that you get this love to Christ.
5. For the comfort, encouragement, and joy—of such as love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity above all.