Day 19: On Mortal Sin.
"Consider, fourthly, that sin is infinitely odious and detestable in the sight of God, as being infinitely opposite to his sovereign goodness. He hates it with an eternal and necessary hatred; and can no more cease to hate it, than he can cease to be just. Hence if the most just man upon earth were so unhappy as to fall into the least mortal sin, he would in that instant become the enemy of God, and were he to die in the guilt thereof, he would certainly feel the weight of God's avenging justice for all eternity. Ah! Christians, never let us be so mad as to venture to wage war with God. Alas! how many dreadful judgments does he daily exercise upon sin and sinners? How many, in punishment of sin, are snatched away in the flower of their age, by sudden and unprovided death? How many die in despair? How many, after having long abused God's graces, are given up to a reprobate sense, and hardness of heart, the worst and most terrible of all his judgments? O! let us tremble at the thoughts of so great a misfortune; let us be convinced, that there can be no misery so great as that which we incur by mortal sin; and that we are more our own enemies, and do ourselves more mischief, by consenting to but one mortal sin, than all the men upon earth, and all the devils in hell could do us, though they were all to conspire together to do their worst; because all they can do, so long as we refuse consent to sin, cannot hurt the soul; whereas, by consenting to one mortal sin, we bring upon our own souls a dreadful and eternal death. Good God! never suffer us to be so blinded as to become thus the murderers of our own souls."
Source:
"Think well on't, or, Reflections on the great truths of the Christian religion for every day of the month" by Rev. Richard Challoner
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