Eternity at hand
Awake, you everlasting spirit, out of your dream of worldly happiness. Did not God create you for himself? Then you cannot rest until you rest in him. Return, you wanderer. Fly back to your ark. This is not your home.
Do not think of building tabernacles here. You are only a stranger, a sojourner upon earth, a creature of a day, just launching out into an unchangeable state. Make haste. Eternity is at hand. Eternity depends on this moment: an eternity of happiness, or an eternity of misery.
1771 text
5. Awake, thou everlasting spirit, out of thy dream of worldly happiness. Did not God create thee for himself? Then, thou canst not rest, till thou restest in him. Return thou wanderer. Fly back to thy ark. This is not thy home. Think not of building tabernacles here. Thou art but a stranger, a sojourner upon earth: A creature of a day, but just launching out into an unchangeable state. Make haste. Eternity is at hand. Eternity depends on this moment. An eternity of happiness, or an eternity of misery!
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 3 in the 1771 Works. Charles Wesley preached it at Oxford, 4 April 1742. Ephesians 5:14.
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