CURSE, THE
“As many as are of the works of the law are under the curse,” even as the Shorter
Catechism puts it, “They have lost communion with God, are under his wrath and
curse, and so are made liable to all the miseries of this life, to death itself, and to the
pains of hell for ever.” Dare you sleep to-night under the curse? Will you wake
tomorrow and go forth to your business under the curse? Can you sport, and laugh,
and frolic, under the curse? God grant that we may be sufficiently sensible to be filled
with anguish at the sound of these dreadful words—“under the curse”! 2093.363