Special Mercy Arouses More Gratitude Than Universal

This Life Was Not Intended To Be The Place Of Our Perfection, But The Preparation For It.

Overvalue Not Therefore The Manner Of Your Own Worship, And Overvilify Not Other Men's Of A Different Mode.

The Very Design Of The Gospel Doth Tend To Self-abasing; And The Work Of Grace Is Begun And Carried On In Humiliation. Humility Is Not A Mere Ornament Of A Christian, But An Essential Part Of The New Creature: It Is A Contradiction To Be A Sanctified Man, Or A True Christian, And Not Humble.

Nothing Can Be Rightly Known, If God Be Not Known; Nor Is Any Study Well Managed, Nor To Any Great Purpose, If God Is Not Studied. We Know Little Of The Creature, Till We Know It As It Stands Related To The Creator.

If It Will Be An Intolerable Thing To Suffer The Heat Of Fire For A Year Or A Day, Or An Hour, What Will It Be To Suffer Ten Thousand Times More For Ever? What If Thou Wert To Suffer Lawrence 's Death, To Be Roasted Upon A Gridiron; Or To Be Scraped Or Pricked To Death As Other Martyrs Were; Or If Thou Wert To Feed Upon Toads For A Year Together? If Thou Couldst Not Endure Such Things As These, How Wilt Thou Endure The Eternal Flames ?