Thine own iniquity shall correct thee.
Jeremiah ii. 19.
Theme: The moral law executes itself in the action of men. Virtue brings normally its own reward; and sin does the same. The action and issue of sin are the necessary hell of the sinner's own creation, not an arbitary infliction on the part of God. God would not prevent it, because it is part of the fundamental law which Himself must obey. There is therefore no escape from hell for a sinner, so long as he remains a sinner; because he cannot escape from himself, and the issues of his own action, except apparently, for a little while, here in the world of probation, where the harvest is not ripe for us to reap what we have sown.
The sermon by Mr. Gill, on July 11, related to the text in Daniel ii. 34, 35, in which we read of the stone cutout without hands, which destroyed the great, imperial image, and filled the whole earth.
