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 thorns or figs of thistles? Take this to yourselves, ye to whom it belongs. * O ye barren trees, why cumber ye the ground? ''Every good tree bringeth forth good fruit.'' See ye not, that here is no exception? Take knowledge then, ye are not good trees: for ye do not bring forth good fruit. ''But a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.'' And so have ye done from the beginning. Your speaking as from God has only confirmed them that heard you, in the tempers, if not works, of the devil. O take warning of him in whose name ye speak, before the sentence he hath pronounced take place. ''Every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire.''

14. My dear brethren, harden not your hearts. You have too long shut your eyes against the light. Open them now before it is too late; before you are cast into outer darkness. Let not any temporal consideration weigh with you: for eternity is at stake. Ye have run before ye were sent. O go no farther. Do not persist to damn yourselves and them that hear you! You have no fruit of your labours. And why is this? Even because the Lord is not with you. But can you go this warfare at your own cost? It cannot be. Then humble yourselves before him. Cry unto him out of the dust, that he may first quicken thy soul: give thee the faith that worketh by love: that is lowly and meek, pure and merciful, zealous of good works; rejoicing in tribulation, in