As God Delights In His Own Beauty,

Being Sensible That I Am Unable To Do Any Thing Without God's Help, I Do Humbly Entreat Him, By His Grace, To Enable Me To Keep These Resolutions, So Far As They Are Agreeable To His Will, For Christ's Sake.

Surely There Is Something In The Unruffled Calm Of Nature That Overawes Our Little Anxieties And Doubts; The Sight Of The Deep-blue Sky And The Clustering Stars Above Seems To Impart A Quiet To The Mind.

Nothing Sets A Person So Much Out Of The Devil's Reach As Humility.

That The Reason Why They Are Not Fallen Already And Do Not Fall Now Is Only That God's Appointed Time Is Not Come. For It Is Said, That When That Due Time, Or Appointed Time Comes, Their Foot Shall Slide. Then They Shall Be Left To Fall, As They Are Inclined By Their Own Weight. God Will Not Hold Them Up In These Slippery Places Any Longer, But Will Let Them Go; And Then, At That Very Instant, They Shall Fall Into Destruction; As He That Stands On Such Slippery Declining Ground, On The Edge Of A Pit, He Cannot Stand Alone, When He Is Let Go He Immediately Falls And Is Lost.

Holiness Appeared To Me To Be Of A Sweet, Pleasant, Charming, Serene, Calm Nature; Which Brought An Inexpressible Purity, Brightness, Peacefulness And Ravishment To The Soul.