3. Thirdly, Let this consideration provoke you not to slight this great salvation, That Christ is exceedingly serious and earnest that ye would embrace it. And I think that Isaiah xxviii. 23, speaketh out this exceeding seriousness; where four times he beggeth of his hearers, that they would give ear and hear his voice, saying, Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken and hear my speech. What needeth all these exhortations, but that Christ is most serious that they would embrace the great salvation. And O that there were a person here to-day as serious to the bargain as Christ is! But, be who ye will that slight this great salvation, believe me, the day is coming wherein ye shall cry out, Alas! for the slighting of it. Wilt thou therefore think presently with thyself, (O thou slighter of this great salvation) what wilt thou say of thy slighting of it, when the devil shall be leading thee in through the dark gates of hell? O slighter of the gospel! how many alases wilt thou cry, when thou shalt be passing through these dark gates into thy everlasting prison? Wilt thou not then cry out, O me, slighter of the everlasting salvation! Whither am I now going? Alas! now for my slighting of the gospel. And as thou passest through, thou shalt meet with numbers of miserable comforters. There is not one in that prison that can comfort thee; but many dreadful alases shalt thou then both cry and hear, if thou embrace not this great salvation.Andrew Gray, "On the Great Salvation," in The Works of the Reverent and Pious Andrew Gray (Aberdeen: Published by George King and Robert King, 1839), 85.
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