Refuse that entertainment and that amusement, though all the world were crowding upto it.

And soon, and soon, till you have plucked your eye as clean of temptations and snares as it is possible to be in this life.

For this life is full of that terrible but blessed law of our Lord.

The life of all His people, that is; and you are one of them, are you not?
You will know whether or no you are one of them just by the number of the beautiful things, and the sweet things, and the things to be desired, that you have plucked out of your eye at His advice and demand.

True religion, my brethren, on some sides of it, and at some stages of it, is a terribly severe and sore business; and unless it is proving a terribly severe and sore business to you, look out! lest, with your two hands and your two feet and your two eyes, you be cast, with all that your hands and feet and eyes have feasted on, into the everlasting fires! Woe unto the world because of offences, but woe much more to that member and entrance-gate of the body by which the offence cometh! Wherefore, if thine eye offend thee--! 3.