Prayer Is The Breath Of The New

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 Shall Find This To Be God's Usual Course: Not To Give His Children The Taste Of His Delights Till They Begin To Sweat In Seeking After Them.

I Did Nothing That I Might Not Have Done Better.

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.

The Very Design Of The Gospel Doth Tend To Self-abasing; And The Work Of Grace Is Begun And Carried On In Humiliation. Humility Is Not A Mere Ornament Of A Christian, But An Essential Part Of The New Creature: It Is A Contradiction To Be A Sanctified Man, Or A True Christian, And Not Humble.