Now, I Saw, Upon A Time, When

In Prayer, It Is Better To Have Heart Without Words, Than Words Without Heart. Prayer Will Make A Man Cease From Sin, Or Sin Entice A Man To Cease From Prayer. The Spirit Of Prayer Is More Precious Than Treasures Of Gold And Silver. Pray Often, For Prayer Is A Shield To The Soul, A Sacrifice To God, And A Scourge For Satan.

[mr. Gifford] Made It Much His Business To Deliver The People Of God From All Those False And Unsound Rests That By Nature We Are Prone To Make And Take To Our Souls. He Pressed Us To Take Special Heed That We Took Not Up Any Truth Upon Trust - As From This Or That, Or Any Other Man Or Men - But To Cry Mightily To God That He Would Convince Us Of The Reality Thereof, And Set Us Down Therein By His Own Spirit In The Holy Word.

Fear, Lest, By Forgetting What You Are By Nature, You Also Forget The Need That You Have Of Continual Pardon, Support, And Supplies From The Spirit Of Grace, And So Grow Proud Of Your Own Abilities, Or Of What You Have Received From God.

A Saint Abroad, And A Devil At Home.

Now, I Saw, Upon A Time, When He Was Walking In The Fields, That He Was, As He Was Wont, Reading In His Book, And Greatly Distressed In His Mind; And, As He Read, He Burst Out, As He Had Done Before, Crying, What Shall I Do To Be Saved?