Resolved, When I Feel Pain, To Think

True Boldness For Christ Transcends All, It Is Indifference To The Displeasure Of Either Friends Or Foes. Boldness Enables Christians To Forsake All Rather Than Christ, And To Prefer To Offend All Rather Than To Offend Him.

If There Be Ground For You To Trust, As You Do, In Your Own Righteousness, Then All That Christ Did To Purchase Salvation, And All That God Did From The Fall Of Man To Prepare The Way For It, Is In Vain. Consider What Greater Folly Could You Have Devised To Charge Upon God Than This, That All Those Things Were Done So Needlessly; When, Instead Of All This, He Might Only Have Called You Forth, And Committed The Business To You, Which You Think You Can Do So Easily.

Your Wickedness Makes You As It Were Heavy As Lead, And To Tend Downwards With Great Weight And Pressure Towards Hell; And If God Should Let You Go, You Would Immediately Sink And Switfly Descend And Plunge Into The Bottomless Gulf, And Your Healthy Constitution, And Your Own Care And Prudence, And Best Contrivance, And All Your Righteousness, Would Have No More Influence To Uphold You And Keep You Out Of Hell, Than A Spider's Web Would Have To Stop A Fallen Rock.

A True Love For God Must Begin With A Delight In His Holiness, And Not With A Delight In Any Other Attribute; For No Other Attribute Is Truly Lovely Without This.

To Live With All My Might, While I Do Live