If thou be a professor, read and tremble: if thou be profane, do so likewise. For if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and sinners appear? Cumber of the ground, take heed of the axe! Barren fig-tree, beware of the fire!

Yesterday my wife's mom turned 105. And in other news.... Also an introduction and overview of Joseph Alleine's book, An Alarm To the Unconverted 1672.

As it was said to the adherents of Antichrist, so here—some of the unconverted carry their marks in their forehead more openly, and some in their hands more covertly. The apostle reckons up some upon whom he writes the sentence of death, as in these dreadful catalogues which I beseech you to attend to with all diligence: 'For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person--such a man is an idolater--has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

The Work of the Holy Spirit Volume 3 of Owen's collected works, book three. Chapter 1