he Spirit of God to enter.
After listening to the discourse which was preached on the
occasion, and to the other services, I remembered the words of
God to the prophet Ezekiel, contained in the third chapter of the
writings of that prophet. "Son of man, "I have made thee a
watchman to the house of Israel; therefore hear the word at my
mouth, and give them warning from me. When I say unto the
wicked, thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor
speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way to save his life,
the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity: but his blood will I
require at thine hand. Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not
from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way; he
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shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy soul." Again,
"when a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness and
commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall
die; because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his
sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be
remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin
not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned:
Also thou hast delivered thy soul." In the thirty-third chapter of the
same prophet, we read as follows: "Again the word of the Lord
came unto me, saying, Son of man, speak to the children of my
people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if
the people of the land take a man of their coasts and set him for a
watchman; If when he see the sword come upon the land, he blow
the trumpet and warn the people, then whosoever heareth the
sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning, if the sword come
and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. He heard
the sound of the trumpet and took not warning, his blood shall be
upon him; but he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. But if
the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and
the people be not warned; if the sword come and take any person
from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but hi
