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Psalm 51.14. ‘Alienas mortes addimus, quia tot occidimus, quot ad mortem ire quotidie tepidi et tacentes vidimus,’—is Gregory’s awakening exposition of this text. Chrysostom’s words on this subject (Scougal declares) ‘are so terrible, that I tremble to put them into English; and yet’—adds he with a deep-toned impressiveness—‘if a man should speak fire, blood, and smoke; if flames should come out of his mouth instead of words; if he had a voice like thunder, and an eye like lightning, he could not sufficiently represent the dreadful account that an unfaithful pastor shall make.’ Scougal’s Sermon, ut supra. See also some striking thoughts in Dwight’s Sermons, Vol. ii. 444.