Religion, In Its Purity, Is Not So

The Way To Heaven Is Ascending; We Must Be Content To Travel Uphill, Though It Be Hard And Tiresome, And Contrary To The Natural Bias Of Our Flesh.

That The Reason Why They Are Not Fallen Already And Do Not Fall Now Is Only That God's Appointed Time Is Not Come. For It Is Said, That When That Due Time, Or Appointed Time Comes, Their Foot Shall Slide. Then They Shall Be Left To Fall, As They Are Inclined By Their Own Weight. God Will Not Hold Them Up In These Slippery Places Any Longer, But Will Let Them Go; And Then, At That Very Instant, They Shall Fall Into Destruction; As He That Stands On Such Slippery Declining Ground, On The Edge Of A Pit, He Cannot Stand Alone, When He Is Let Go He Immediately Falls And Is Lost.

Resolved, To Ask Myself At The End Of Every Day, Week, Month And Year, Wherein I Could Possibly In Any Respect Have Done Better.

The Happiness Of The Creature Consists In Rejoicing In God, By Which Also God Is Magnified And Exalted.

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.