It Is Past All Question, And Agreed On By All Sides, That No Religion Will Save A Man Who Is Not Serious, Sincere, And Diligent In It. If Thou Be Of The Truest Religion In The World, And Are Not True Thyself To That Religion, The Religion Is Good, But It Is None Of Thine.
You Little Know What You Have Done, When You Have First Broke The Bounds Of Modesty; You Have Set Open The Door Of Your Fancy To The Devil, So That He Can, Almost At His Pleasure Ever After, Represent The Same Sinful Pleasure To You Anew.
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.
You Shall Find This To Be God's Usual Course: Not To Give His Children The Taste Of His Delights Till They Begin To Sweat In Seeking After Them.
As Holy Zeal Is The Fervency Of Our Grace, So Sinful Zeal Is The Intention And Fervency Of Sin.
When We Speak To Drunkards, Worldlings, Or Any Ignorant, Unconverted Men, We Disgrace Them As In That Condition To The Utmost, And Lay It On As Plainly As We Can Speak, And Tell Them Of Their Sin, And Shame, And Misery: And We Expect, Not Only That They Should Bear All Patiently, But Take All Thankfully, And We Have Good Reasons For All This; And Most That I Deal With Do Take It Patiently... But If We Speak To A Godly Minister Against His Errors Or Any Sin... If It Be Not More An Applause Than A Reprehension, They Take It As An Injury Almost Insufferable.
In My Library I Have Profitably And Pleasantly Dwelt Among The Shining Lights, With Which The Learned, Wise, And Holy Men Of All Ages Have Illuminated The World.
You Will Cast Away Your Cards And Dice When You Find The Sweetness Of Youthful Learning.
Is It Not Enough That All The World Is Against Us, But We Must Also Be Against One Another? O Happy Days Of Persecution, Which Drove Us Together In Love, Whom The Sunshine Of Liberty And Prosperity Crumbles Into Dust By Our Contentions!
Sit Not Down Without Assurance. Get Alone, And Bring Thy Heart To The Bar Of Trial; Force It To Answer The Interrogatories Put To It; Set The Qualifications Of The Saints On One Side, And The Qualifications Of Thy Soul On The Other Side, And Then Judge What Resemblance There Is Between Them.
