Dangers Breed Fears, And Fears More Dangers

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.

You Are Not Likely To See Any General Reformation, Till You Procure Family Reformation.

Of All The Preaching In The World, I Hate That Preaching Which Tends To Make The Hearers Laugh, Or To Move Their Minds With Tickling Levity And Affect Them As Stage Plays Used To, Instead Of Affecting Them With A Holy Reverence For The Name Of God.

Prayer Is The Breath Of The New Creature.

It Is A Contradiction To Be A Sanctified Man, Or A True Christian, And Not Humble.