Facetiousness Is Allowable When It Is The

It Consisteth In One Knows Not What, And Springeth Up One Can Hardly Tell How. Its Ways Are Unaccountable And Inexplicable, Being Answerable To The Numberless Rovings Of Fancy And Windings Of Language.

No Adversity Is In Kind Or Degree Peculiar To Us; But If We Survey The Conditions Of Other Men (of Our Brethren Everywhere, Of Our Neighbours All About Us), And Compare Our Case With Theirs, We Shall Find That We Have Many Consorts And Associates In Adversity, Most As Ill, Many Far Worse Bestead Than Ourselves; Whence It Must Be A Great Fondness And Perverseness To Be Displeased That We Are Not Exempted From, But Exposed To Bear A Share In The Common Troubles And Burdens Of Mankind.

Sin Is Never At A Stay; If We Do Not Retreat From It, We Shall Advance In It; And The Farther On We Go, The More We Have To Come Back.

If Men Are Wont To Play With Swearing Anywhere, Can We Expect They Should Be Serious And Strict Therein At The Bar Or In The Church.

That Men Should Live Honestly, Quietly, And Comfortably Together, It Is Needful That They Should Live Under A Sense Of God's Will, And In Awe Of The Divine Power, Hoping To Please God, And Fearing To Offend Him, By Their Behaviour Respectively.