Sin Is Never Less Quiet Than When

Faith Is The Leading Grace In All Our Spiritual Warfare And Conflict; But All Along While We Live, It Hath Faithful Company That Adheres To It, And Helps It. Love Works, And Hope Works, And All Other Graces, — Self-denial, Readiness To The Cross, — They All Work And Help Faith. But When We Come To Die, Faith Is Left Alone. Now, Try What Faith Will Do.

Did You Never Run For Shelter In A Storm, And Find Fruit Which You Expected Not? Did You Never Go To God For Safeguard, Driven By Outward Storms, And There Find Unexpected Fruit?

Many There Are Who, Not Comprehending, Not Being Affected With, That Divine, Spiritual Description Of The Person Of Christ Which Is Given Us By The Holy Ghost In The Scripture, Do Feign Unto Themselves False Representations Of Him By Images And Pictures, So As To Excite Carnal And Corrupt Affections In Their Minds. By The Help Of Their Outward Senses, They Reflect On Their Imaginations The Shape Of A Human Body, Cast Into Postures And Circumstances Dolorous Or Triumphant; And So, By The Working Of Their Fancy, Raise A Commotion Of Mind In Themselves, Which They Suppose To Be Love Unto Christ.

I Will Not Judge A Person To Be Spiritually Dead Whom I Have Judged Formerly To Have Had Spiritual Life, Though I See Him At Present In A Swoon (faint)as To All Evidences Of The Spiritual Life. And The Reason Why I Will Not Judge Him So Is This -- Because If You Judge A Person Dead, You Neglect Him, You Leave Him; But If You Judge Him In A Swoon,(faint) Though Never So Dangerous, You Use All Means For The Retrieving Of His Life.

A River Continually Fed By A Living Fountain May As Soon End Its Streams Before It Come To The Ocean, As A Stop Be Put To The Course And Progress Of Grace Before It Issue In Glory.