Assurance Is Not To Be Obtained So

All The Graces Of Christianity Always Go Together. They So Go Together That Where There Is One, There Are All, And Where One Is Wanting, All Are Wanting. Where There Is Faith, There Are Love, And Hope, And Humility; And Where There Is Love, There Is Also Trust; And Where There Is A Holy Trust In God, There Is Love To God; And Where There Is A Gracious Hope, There Also Is A Holy Fear Of God.

What Self-righteous Persons Take To Themselves, Is The Same Work That Christ Was Engaged In When He Was In His Agony And Bloody Sweat, And When He Died On The Cross, Which Was The Greatest Thing That Ever The Eyes Of Angels Beheld. Christ Could Accomplish Other Parts Of This Work Without Cost; But This Part Cost Him His Life, As Well As Innumerable Pains And Labors. Yet This Is The Part Which Self-righteous Persons Go About To Accomplish For Themselves.

True Virtue Never Appears So Lovely As When It Is Most Oppressed; And The Divine Excellency Of Real Christianity Is Never Exhibited With Such Advantage As When Under The Greatest Trials; Then It Is That True Faith Appears Much More Precious Than Gold, And Upon This Account Is "found To Praise And Honour And Glory.

That There Should Absolutely Be Nothing At All Is Utterly Impossible. The Mind, Let It Stretch Its Conceptions Ever So Far, Can Never So Much As Bring Itself To Conceive Of A State Of Perfect Nothing.

I Know Not How To Express Better, What My Sins Appear To Me To Be, Than By Heaping Infinite Upon Infinite, And Multiplying Infinite By Infinite . . . When I Look Into My Heart And Take A View Of My Wickedness, It Looks Like An Abyss Infinitely Deeper Than Hell.