I Was By Birth A Gentleman, Living

I Would Have Been Glad To Have Lived Under My Wood Side, And To Have Kept A Flock Of Sheep, Rather Than To Have Undertaken This Government.

It's A Blessed Thing To Die Daily. For What Is There In This World To Be Accounted Of! The Best Men According To The Flesh, And Things, Are Lighter Than Vanity. I Find This Only Good, To Love The Lord And His Poor Despised People, To Do For Them And To Be Ready To Suffer With Them....and He That Is Found Worthy Of This Hath Obtained Great Favour From The Lord; And He That Is Established In This Shall ( Being Conformed To Christ And The Rest Of The Body) Participate In The Glory Of A Resurrection Which Will Answer All.

Mr. Lely, I Desire You Would Use All Your Skill To Paint My Picture Truly Like Me, And Not Flatter Me At All; But Remark All These Roughnesses, Pimples, Warts, And Everything As You See Me, Otherwise I Will Never Pay A Farthing For It.

Men Have Been Led In Dark Paths, Through The Providence And Dispensation Of God. Why, Surely It Is Not To Be Objected To A Man, For Who Can Love To Walk In The Dark? But Providence Doth Often So Dispose.

Sir, What Can Be Said Of These Things? Is It The Arm Of The Flesh That Hath Done These Things? Is It The Wisdom And Counsel, Or Strength Of Man? It Is The Lord Only. God Will Curse That Man And His House That Dares To Think Otherwise. Sir, You See The Work Is Done By A Divine Leading. God Gets Into The Hearts Of Men, And Persuades Them To Come Under You.