"Thou fool, this night...?"
inconveniences for themselves... and by this means many thousands are actually undone...
APPLICATION:
This may be of warning to sinners not to delay and put off...
You have heard how common this is... Men are exceeding prone to it... Does your own experience confirm what has been said in this matter? And are there not some here who are now doing as has been represented? Have we not reason to think that there are many here present that say as Felix, "When..." etc.?
Undoubted, by what is everywhere to be seen at such a time of general deadness and regardlessness of religion as this is: a good evidence of the exceeding proneness to put off...
Let all take warning...
You have heard something in general of wickedness and folly; but here consider more particularly —
1. What guilt you contract: what a horrible thing it is to live in known and willful disobedience to God;... what great light ye will sin against if you...
2. What would you think of your delays if God should say to you, "Thou fool, this night...?"
3. If the future time you are putting off to should never come, how far it will probably be from being a "more convenient season."...
In many respects, far more inconvenient... God's anger increased... your heart harder, more stupid... every evil habit established... sloth... a carnal, worldly disposition... an habitual making light of