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No. 81 
BLOOD UPON THE DOOR POSTS; 


MEANS OF SAFETY IN THE TIME OF PESTILENCE. 


For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians ; and when 
te secth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the Lord 
will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in 
unto your houses to smite you.—Exonus xii, 23. 

The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin,— 
1 Joun i. 7. 

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judg- 
ment; so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto 
them that look for him, shall he appear the second time, without sin, 
unto salvation—Hesrews ix. 27, 28. 





READER, Whoever you are, whatever your rank, age, or 
sex; there is not an event connected with your existence, 
more absolutely certain than death. You must die some 
time; it may be soon, and it may be suddenly. Have you 
ever seriously thought of this event? You have looked upon 
the dying, perhaps, or upon the dead; at least, you have 
often seen the funeral procession, and gazed upon the graves 
of the departed. The departed!—and did you ever seri- 
ously ask whither they had gone; and how soon you must 
also follow? If you have not attended to this solemn sub- 
ject before, be entreated to bestow a few minutes upon it 
now. And ew, when the judgments of God are upon the 
earth, and a fatal disease has invaded our land, hurrying, 
day after day, its hundreds to the grave,—now, while you 
are in health and able to think calmly and clearly upon the 
- subject,—zow, is a favourable time for serious reflection, 
and prompt decision. | 

As certainly as that you must die, you are a sinner; for 
death is the wages of sin. If you were sinless, you would 
never die. God is perfectly holy, and perfectly just: there- 
fore, he cannot but hate sin and punish the sinner. If you 
examine your past life, and compare it with the law of Goc 
—a law which requires perfect, pure, and perpetual love 
and obedience to God, you must perceive in your actions, 
words, thoughts, and feelings, innumerable things contrary 


2 BLOOD UPON THE DOOR FOSTS. 


to the demands of that holy law. By that law you are con 
demned , and unless you can escape condemnation in a way 
that is consistent with the law of God, you are lost forever. 
If, then, you are living in this sinful and condemned state, 
and death should overtake you, whither will you go?’ To 
heaven !—what would yow do in heaven, who have no relish 
for religious and holy things on earth? How could you 
stand in the presence of God, whom you have lived only to 
disobey, or of that Saviour whose gospel you have never 
heartily believed, and whose grace, proclaimed as the only 
sure refuge of the guilty, you have always slighted ? 

Carelessness respecting any thing that nearly concerns 
our happiness, is folly ; but carelessness about death and its 
eternal consequences, is worse than folly—it is madness. 
And, reader, have you been living unconcerned about your 
latter end, and unprepared to meet God in judgment? If 
you had a cause depending in an earthly court, which, if 
you lost it, would involve your whole earthly happinesss ; 
and if the day of trial were at hand, would you be inactive 
about preparation to meet it? You would not. But you 
are hastening forward to the judgment bar of God, to be 
tried; from his decision there is no appeal, and the happi- 
ness or misery of your whole eternity of existence depends 
upon his final sentence; and are you without thought, with- 
out care, without preparation? What! unprepared for the 
summons, when the messenger of justice is on his way to 
meet you; when numbers are daily hurried away to their 
last account; when you know not but that the next victim 
of disease or accident that falls, may be yourself !—O, if 
you die in your present state of unbelief and sin, you die to 
all peace, and hope, and happiness, forever ! 

Do you inquire what you shall do to escape eternal death, 
and obtain everlasting life? No inquiry of greater import- 
ance to your well being can be made, or even imagined. 
Then be attentive to the answer; and look up to God in 
fervent supplication, that you may be assisted to understand 
and obey. 

Jesus Christ died, the just for the unjust, that he might 
bring them to God. None can come to God, or partake in 
nis saving mercy, except through Christ. He died to atone 
for sin, and procure for all that believe in his name, eternal 
life. His people confide in his power and his willingness to 
save them; they commit to him the keeping of their souls 


BLOOD UPON THE DOOR POSTS. 3 


‘hey have no other trust. As they depend on him to be 
saved from the guilt and punishment of their sins, through 
his atonement and intercession; so also they depend upon 
him for deliverance from sin itself, by his sanctifying Spiric. 
They seek to be made holy, and to be fitted for the everlast- 
ing enjoyment of God. This cordial and exclusive trust in 
Christ, as their only and all-sufficient Saviour, is FAITH. 
by this faith they are united to him, in a spiritual, holy, and 
intimate relationship; their sins are blotted out: they are, 
for Christ’s sake, received into divine favour, and constituted 
children of God, and heirs of everlasting life. They are 
endued with the disposition of his children, so that they hate 
and avoid sin, and love and seek holiness. ‘They live no 
longer for themselves, but for Him who redeemed them with 
his own blood, and who shed upon them his own gracious 
and sanctifying Spirit. ‘They cannot die: their clay taber- 
nacles may drop into the grave, but they live, and will for- 
ever live in the presence of God, and enjoy his love. 

You see here the path in which the flock of Christ have 
trod, in every age; it is a well tried and plain path. A 
description of it is summed up in the words, ‘ Believe on 
the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.” Into this 
path, reader, you must enter, and press forward in it, re- 
gardless of all temptations to the contrary, if you would 
ever be prepared for death, or be animated with a well 
grounded hope of heaven. Look earnestly to God, through 
Jesus Christ, your Advocate with the Father, for the enlight- 
ening, renewing, invigorating operations of the Holy Spirit. 
Depend wholly upon Flim. Feeling your guilt, your prone- 
ness to evil, your poverty and helplessness, lay your case 
before God, and entreat him to save and strengthen you. 
But remember, he does not save those that remain in sin; 
he does not strengthen those that lie down in sloth and inac- 
tivity. You must not only confess, but also forsake your 
sins; and, trusting to receive strength in answer to your 
prayers, you must act as if all depended on your own exer- 
tions. ‘The man in the gospel, whose hand was withered, 
could as soon have moved a mountain as have stretched out 
his hand by his own power. But believing in Him who 
bade him stretch it out, he obeyed—and the performance 
of this act was evidence of his faith. To plead want ot 
ability, therefore, as an excuse for neglect of duty, and con- 
tinuance in sin, is to make one sin an apology for a thou- 


4 BLOOD UPON THE DOOR POSTS. 


sand others. What God has required of you, he has pro 
mised you strength to perform. Relying on his faithfulness 
and truth, go forward humbly but confidently, diligently, 
and perseveringly, in the path of duty. No soul ever per- 
ished in this path; and no soul ever entered it, without being 
led by the Spirit of God. Whosoever is found therein, with 
a broken spirit and a contrite heart, has the testimony of 
God’s Spirit, witnessing with his spirit, that he is a child 
of God. 

Reader, will you go to Christ, and be saved from sin and 
death? Or will you Jay down this paper, forget the subject, 
persevere in sin, and perish forever? Be entreated to an- 
swer the question zmmediately—to answer it as if you ex- 
pected this day to be your last. Going to Christ in the way 
that has been explained to you, and receiving the pardon of 
your sins, you need not fear the cholera, or any other dis- 
ease. For if you should die at any moment, your soul 
would be safe. And at the day of judgment, when God 
sends the impenitent to everlasting punishment, he will 
*‘ pass over” you, as he did the houses of the Israelites, be- 
cause the blood of Christ has been applied to your soul. 


THE SAINT’S SECURITY. — 


He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High, shall abide 
under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my 
refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Surely he 
shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome 
pestilence, He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings 
shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buekler. Thou 
shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth 
by day; nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the 
destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy 
side, and ten th»usand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh 
thee. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the 
wieked, Because thou hast made the Lord which is my refuge, even 
the Most High, thy habitation; there shall no evil befall thee, neither 
shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall give his angels 
charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways, They shall bear thee 
up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. Thou shalt 
tread upon the lion and the adder: the young lion and the dragon 
shalt thou trample under feet, Because he hath set his love upon me 
therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath 
known my name. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I 
will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him, 
With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation,—Psa. xci. 


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