THE CHILD PREPARED TO MEET HIS GOD.

Preached Oct. 29, 1843.

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Prepare to meet thy God."-Amos iv. 12.

THIS was the warning addressed by God through His prophet Amos to the people of Israel, when they had forsaken Him, and given themselves up to the dominion of their own lusts. It is the warning which God has addressed to all through their conscience, through His Word, through His ministers, from the time that man first sinned, from the time that guilt first made him to tremble, and, because he was not prepared to meet Him, he endeavoured to "hide himself from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.' The same warning voice is still continually heard by all the sons of men, until the Spirit of God has ceased to strive with them, and they are given over to a reprobate mind. The taint and the curse of sin are still upon every soul brought into the world. And from the moment that the mind becomes capable of discerning between good and evil, the warning is addressed to the child; and until then, and until everything necessary to his salvation shall have been done for him, and he shall have been fully instructed in the things

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