Christian Theology - Media Sabda Org

I have known persons, in endeavouring to run out of the way of carts
and coaches, actually run into the way of danger. I have known one who,
walking along the parapet, was crushed to pieces by a cart wheel against
the wall. I have seen a woman striving to see the raree-show of an
illumination, fall from a garret, and dashed to pieces on the pavement. I
have seen a man who had got too much liquor, riding furiously,—his
horse fell, and he was killed on the spot. I have seen another who, getting
on forbidden ground, was shot dead on the spot. I have known another
who fell over a bank, and was dead before he could be taken up. In short,
I have known many who ran into various kinds of dangers, and have paid
for their imprudence, temerity, or what was called the "accident," by the
loss of their life. In crossing the streets of London, or other large cities
and towns, let us remember the proverb, that "there are always two
hundred yards more of room behind a coach than before it:" of this many
are sadly unmindful, and run across public streets before horses and
carriages driving at full trot; and not a few have either lost life or limb by
this folly.
As the religion of Christ gives no quarter to vice, so the vicious will
give no quarter to this religion, or to its professors.
Can any man who pretends to be a scholar or disciple of Jesus Christ
expect to be treated well by the world? Will not the world love its own,
and them only? Why then so much impatience under sufferings, such an
excessive sense of injuries, such delicacy? Can you expect any thing from
the world better than you receive? If you want the honour that comes
from it, abandon Jesus Christ, and it will again receive you into its
bosom. But you will, no doubt, count the cost before you do this. Take
the converse, abandon the love of the world, &c., and God will receive
you.
If, in order to please a father or brother who is opposed to vital
godliness, we abandon God's ordinances and followers, we are unworthy
of any thing but hell.