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IMPORTANCE IN THE WORD. 17

How Large a Portion of the Word Is Devoted to It.
If the Holy Ghost has deemed it so important, is it not
worthy of our attention? The Word exhorts us 40 to give
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attention to it; and the danger of condemnation is to
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them who do not.
Again, please to examine the passages cited under the
heading, "A Practical Doctrine/' on page 180 and see how
Jesus and the apostles used this doctrine to incite us to
watchfulness, repentance, patience, ministerial faithfulness,
brotherly love, etc., and then decide whether anything could
be more practical.
Surely no doctrine, in the Word of God, presents a deeper
motive for crucifying the flesh, and for separation unto
(4.0) 1 Thes. 4:18. Wherefore 36. Watch ye therefore, and
comfort one another with these pray always, that ye may be ac-
words. counted worthy to escape all
1 Cor. 1:7. So that ye come these things that shall come to
behind in no gift ; waiting for pass, and to stand before the
the coming of our Lord Jesus Son of man.
Christ : 1 Thes. 5 :1. But of the times
(41) Rev. 1:3. Blessed is he and the seasons, brethren, ye
that readeth, and they that hear have no need that I write unto
the words of this prophecy, and you.
keep those things which are 2. For yourselves know
per-
written therein : for the time is fectly that the day of the Lord
at hand.
so cometh as a thief in the
(42) Luke 12:45. But and if
night.
that servant say in his heart,
My lord delayeth his coming ; 3. For when they shall iay.
and shall begin to beat the men- Peace and safety ; then sudden
servants and maidens, and to eat destruction cometh upon them,
and drink, and to be drunken ; as travail upon a woman with
46. The lord of that servant child ; and they shall not escape.
will come in a day when he 4. But ye, brethren, are not in
looketh not for him, and at an darkness, that that day should
hour when he is not aware, and overtake you as a thief.
will cut him in sunder, and will
5. Ye are all the children of
appoint him his portion with the and
light, the children cf ihe
unbelievers. day : vt ar not of the eight,
Luke 21 :34. And take heed to
nor of darkness.
yourselves, lest at any time yo\i7
6. Therefore let us not
sleep,
hearts be overcharged -with sur- as do others ; but let us watch
feiting, and drunkenness, and
cares of ttSs life, and so that and be sober.
*w-ccme upon you unawares. 7. For they that sleep sleep
"5. For as a snare shall it in the night ; and they that be
come on all them that dwell on drunken are drunken in th*
the face of the whole earth. night.