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Finally, if ye know these things, ye are but the more unhappy, except ye do them. It is not your calling yourselves Christians, nor even your believing the Gospel when you happen to think of it, that will make you worthy to be carried of the angels into Abraham's bosom, if your heart be not with God, if your thoughts, words, and actions be not governed by His Commandments. You have not only Moses and the Prophets, but Christ and His Apostles to tell you of your duty, if you will but hear Him. Christ speaks to you by His word and His works, by His ministers and His Sacraments, by the blessings and the sorrows which He sends you: by all these, I say, He daily warns you against sin: and on this day more especially by the mouth of His holy Church He warns you against those sins for which the rich man in the parable was cast into torments, namely, uncharitableness towards man and forgetfulness of God.

John Keble — John Keble, Sermons, Occasional and Parochial (Oxford: James Parker and Co., 1868), Sermon III on Luke 16:31 ("If they hear not Moses and the Prophets..."), p. 37.

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