If They Can See You Love Them,

A Foolish Physician He Is, And A Most Unfaithful Friend, That Will Let A Sick Man Die For Fear Of Troubling Him; And Cruel Wretches Are We To Our Friends, That Will Rather Suffer Them To Go Quietly To Hell, Then We Will Anger Them, Or Hazard Our Reputation With Them.

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.

Such Is The Depth Of The Christian Scriptures, That Even If I Were Attempting To Study Them And Nothing Else From Early Boyhood To Decrepit Old Age, With The Utmost Leisure, The Most Unwearied Zeal, And Talents Greater Than I Have, I Would Be Still Daily Making Progress In Discovering Their Treasures.

We Must Feel Toward Our People As A Father Toward His Children; Yea, The Most Tender Love Of A Mother Must Not Surpass Ours. We Must Even Travail In Birth, Till Christ Be Formed In Them. They Should See That We Care For No Outward Thing, Neither Liberty, Nor Honor, Nor Life, In Comparison To Their Salvation... When The People See That You Truly Love Them, They Will Hear Anything From You...oh Therefore, See That You Feel A Tender Love For Your People In Your Hearts, And Let Them Perceive It In Your Speech And Conduct. Let Them See That You Spend And Are Spent For Their Sakes.

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.