Oh, think of these things, and cast away your sins betimes, at the
foot of his everlasting cross, lest you be consumed with your sins
in his everlasting fire!
SERMON XII. THE BIRTHNIGHT OF FREEDOM
(Easter Day.)
Exodus xii. 42. This is a night to be much observed unto the Lord,
for bringing the children of Israel out of Egypt.
To be much observed unto the Lord by the children of Israel. And by
us, too, my friends; and by all nations who call themselves FREE.
There are many and good ways of looking at Easter Day. Let us look
at it in this way for once.
It is the day on which God himself set men FREE.
Consider the story. These Israelites, the children of Abraham, the
brave, wild patriarch of the desert, have been settled for hundreds
of years in the rich lowlands of Egypt. There they have been eating
and drinking their fill, and growing more weak, slavish, luxurious,
fonder and fonder of the flesh-pots of Egypt; fattening literally
for the slaughter, like beasts in a stall. They are spiritually
dead--dead in trespasses and sins. They do not want to be free, to
be a nation. They are content to be slaves and idolaters, if they
can only fill their stomachs.
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