Worldly Pleasures, Such As Flow From Greatness,

My Disorder Has Been Attended With Several Symptoms Of A Consumption; And I Have Been At Times Apprehensive That My Great Change Was At Hand: Yet Blessed Be God, I Have Never Been Affrighted; But, On The Contrary, At Times Much Delighted With A View Of Its Approach.

It Is Sweet To Be Nothing And Less Than Nothing That Christ May Be All In All.

I Have Ever Found It, When I Have Thought The Battle Was Over And The Conquest Gained, And So Let Down My Watch, The Enemy Has Risen Up And Done Me The Greatest Injury.

Oh, How Precious Is Time, And How It Pains Me To See It Slide Away, While I Do So Little To Any Good Purpose.

A Few Of The Sublimest Geniuses Of Rome And Athens Had Some Faint Discoveries Of The Spiritual Nature Of The Human Soul, And Formed Some Probable Conjectures, That Man Was Designed For A Future State Of Existence.