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JESUS 18 COMING.

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          reconciled to God,  now, in the accepted time, in the day
          of salvation. 21  Do  let us entreat you to repent and be
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          converted, that your sins may be blotted out,  and that
          you may turn "to serve the living and true God, and to
                                    23  and be unblamable at the
          wait for his Son from Heaven,"
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          coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
            But if you are a Christian, then we point you to Hia
          coming again, as
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                   The True Incentive to a Holy Life.
            Jesus is coming, therefore mortify your members which
            (20) 2 Cor. 5:20.  Now then  Acts 17 :30.  And the times of
          we are ambassadors  for  Christ,  this  ignorance God winked  at ;
          as though God did beseech you  but now commandeth  all men
          by us : we pray you  in Christ's  every where to repent  :
          stead, be ye reconciled to God.  31. Because he hath appointed
            (21) 2  Cor.  6:2.  (For  he  a  day,  in  the  which  he  will
          saith,  I have heard  thee  in a  judge  the  world  in  righteous-
          time  accepted, and  in  the day  ness by that man whom he bath
          of  salvation  have  I  succoured  ordained  ; whereof he hath given
               behold, now         assurance unto  all men,  in that
          thee :         is  the  ac-
          cepted time  ; behold, now  is the  he  hath  raised him  from  tho
          day of salvation.)       dead.
            Luke 14:31.  Or what  king,  (23)  1 Thes.  1:9.  For they
          going  to make war against an-  themselves shew of us what man-
          other  king,  sitteth  not  down  ner of entering in we had unto
          first, and consulteth whether he  you, and how ye turned to God
          be  able  with  ten  thousand  to  from  idols  to  serve  the  living
          meet him  that cometh  against  and true God ;
          him with twenty thousand?  10. And  to wait  for his Son
                                   from  heaven, whom  he  raised
            32. Or else, while the other is
                                   from the dead, even Jesus, which
          yet a great way  off, he sendeth
          an ambas'sage, and desireth con-  delivered us from the wrath to
                                   come.
          ditions of peace.
                                     (24)  1  Thes.  3:13.  To  the
            33. So likewise, whosoever  iic
                                   end he may stablish your hearts
          be of you that forsaketh not all  unblamable  in  holiness  before
          that he hath, he cannot be my
                                   God,  even  our  Father,  at  the
          disciple.                coming of our Lord Jesus Christ
            (22) Acts  10:42.  And  he  with all his saints.
          commandeth us  to  preach  unto  (25)  1  John  3 :2.  Beloved,
          the people, and to testify that it  now are we the sons of God| and
          is  he  which  was  ordatned  of  it doth not yet appear what we
          God  to  be  the Judge  of quick  shall  be :  but we know  that,
          and dead.                when he  shall appear, we shall
            43. To him give all the proph-  be  like him  ;  for we  shall  see
          ets  witness,  that  through  His  him as he  is.
          name  whosoever  believeth  in  3. And every man  that hath
          him  shall  receive  remission  ol  this hope  in him purifleth him-
          eins.                    self, even as he  is pure-
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