What must be the apostate's doom when his naked soul appears before God? How will he bear that voice, "Depart, ye cursed; you have rejected Me, and I reject you; you have played the harlot and departed from Me. I also have banished you forever from My presence and will not have mercy on you"? What will be this wretch's shame at the last great day when, before assembled multitudes, the apostate will be unmasked? No greater eagerness will ever be seen among Satanic tormentors than in that day when devils drag the hypocrite's soul down to perdition. Bunyan pictures this with massive but awful gradeur of poetry when he speaks of the back way to hell. Seven devils bound the wretch with nine cords and dragged him from the road to heaven, in which he had professed to walk, and thrust him through the back door into hell. Mind that back way to hell! Examine yourselves whether you are in the faith. Look well to your state and see whether you be in Christ or not. It is the easiest thing in the world to give a lenient verdict when one's self is to be tried. Be just to all, but be rigorous to yourself. Remember, if it is not a rock on which you build, when the house falls, great will be the fall of it. May the Lord give you sincerity, constancy, and firmness; and in no day, however evil, may you be led to turn aside.