Sins of omission

I cannot conclude this head, without exhorting you to examine yourself likewise touching sins of omission. Are you as clear of these, now you are under grace, as you were when under the law? How diligent were you then in hearing the word of God? Did you neglect any opportunity? Did you not attend on it day and night? Would a small hindrance have kept you away? A little business? A visitor? A slight indisposition? A soft bed? A dark or cold morning? Did you not then fast often? Or use abstinence to the uttermost of your power? Were you not much in prayer, (cold and heavy as you were) while you were hanging over the mouth of hell? Did you not speak and not spare, even for an unknown God? Did you not boldly plead his cause? Reprove sinners? And avow the truth, before an adulterous generation? And are you now a believer in Christ? Have you the faith that overcomes the world (1 John 5:4)? What! and are less zealous for your Master now, than you were when you did not know him? Less diligent in fasting, in prayer, in hearing his word, in calling sinners to God? O repent. See and feel your grievous loss! Remember from where you have fallen! Bewail your unfaithfulness! Now be zealous and do the first works (Revelation 2:5); lest if you continue to make void the law through faith, God cut you off, and appoint you your portion with the unbelievers (Luke 12:46)!