Suffering So Unbolts The Door Of The

It Is As Hard A Thing To Maintain A Sound Understanding, A Tender Conscience, A Lively, Gracious, Heavenly Spirit, And An Upright Life In The Midst Of Contention, As To Keep Your Candle Lighted In The Greatest Storms.

In A Divine Commonwealth Holiness Must Have The Principal Honor And Encouragement, And A Great Difference Be Made Between The Precious And The Vile.

And Though It Be Their Sin And Vanity That Is The Cause, It Is Nevertheless Your Sin To Be The Unnecessary Occasion: For You Must Consider That You Live Among Diseased Souls. And You Must Not Lay A Stumblingblock In Their Way, Nor Blow Up The Fire Of Their Lust, Nor Make Your Ornaments Their Snares; But You Must Walk Among Sinful Persons, As You Would Do With A Candle Among Straw Or Gunpowder; Or Else You May See The Flame Which You Would Not Foresee, When It Is Too Late To Quench It.

The Churchyard Is The Market Place Where All Things Are Rated At Their True Value, And Those Who Are Approaching It Talk Of The World And Its Vanities With A Wisdom Unknown Before.

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.