Be Of Good Cheer, Jesus Christ Maketh

[mr. Gifford] Made It Much His Business To Deliver The People Of God From All Those False And Unsound Rests That By Nature We Are Prone To Make And Take To Our Souls. He Pressed Us To Take Special Heed That We Took Not Up Any Truth Upon Trust - As From This Or That, Or Any Other Man Or Men - But To Cry Mightily To God That He Would Convince Us Of The Reality Thereof, And Set Us Down Therein By His Own Spirit In The Holy Word.

Here Is The Life Of Prayer, When In Or With The Spirit, A Man Being Made Sensible Of Sin, And How To Come To The Lord For Mercy; He Comes, I Say, In The Strength Of The Spirit, And Crieth Father. That One Word Spoken In Faith Is Better Than A Thousand Prayers, As Men Call Them, Written And Read, In A Formal, Cold, Lukewarm Way.

If We Have Not Quiet In Our Minds, Outward Comfort Will Do No More For Us Than A Golden Slipper On A Gouty Foot.

Afflictions Make The Heart More Deep, More Experimental, More Knowing And Profound, And So, More Able To Hold, To Contain, And Beat More.

Sleep Is Sweet To The Labouring Man.