Verse 16
16. Rejoice Why not? Are not Christ and all heaven yours? The wicked, the proud, the laughers, the revellers, the bloody rulers of this world, amid all their boisterous mirth and drunken hilarity, have just reason for despondency and despair. And underneath all their rollick and riot are a true despondency and hopelessness. They stand on a thin crust over the abyss of hell, and are dropping down and in by successive thousands. But beneath you is the basis of the everlasting atonement, above you is a smiling God, and before you an eternity of heaven. For you to despond or to not rejoice is an insult to the grace of God through Christ.
Evermore Always. For Christ, and God, and heaven are eternal. There is no time, then, in which you have a right to be despondent and miserable. No worldly adverse affairs, no menacing enemy, no bodily pain, excuses a refusal to rejoice evermore. If you ask to know how you can escape this foul sin of despondency, the next short verse shall tell you.
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