The 5 questions posited to John Mac on his death-bed. An enthusiastic response to each. Why modern evangelicals don't accept assurance tied to evangelical obedience.

Sudden fears are attended with a stupefying influence upon those that want faith, but far different is the fact with regard to the righteous. The righteous man is as bold as a lion, for he knows, like the three children in Babylon, that the God whom he serves is able to deliver him, or to render him happy, though the desolation of others should involve the destruction, not only of all his outward comforts, but of his mortal life.

For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honey-comb and her mouth is smoother than oil. She talks of nothing but love, and pleasure, and perpetual delights. To hear her, one would suppose that she possessed the most generous and disinterested spirit. Her tongue is taught by him who betrayed Eve to paint the vilest sin with the most beautiful colours, and to conceal all its deformity and danger; but it is the part of a reasonable creature to look beyond the present moment, and to consider the end of things, as well as their beginning. There is sweetness indeed in the mouth of this strange woman, (Verse 4) But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edge sword.

Some discussion of the many things that are going on around here, and also a discussion of a commentary on Proverbs and the Immoral, or "strange woman" mentioned in the book of Proverbs numerous times.