Special Mercy Arouses More Gratitude Than Universal

Preach To Yourselves The Sermons Which You Study, Before You Preach Them To Others.

When Christ Comes With Regenerating Grace, He Finds No Man Sitting Still, But All Posting To Eternal Ruin, And Making Haste Toward Hell; Till, By Conviction, He First Brings Them To A Stand, And Then, By Conversion, Turn First Their Hearts, And Then Their Lives, Sincerely To Himself.

If It Will Be An Intolerable Thing To Suffer The Heat Of Fire For A Year Or A Day, Or An Hour, What Will It Be To Suffer Ten Thousand Times More For Ever? What If Thou Wert To Suffer Lawrence 's Death, To Be Roasted Upon A Gridiron; Or To Be Scraped Or Pricked To Death As Other Martyrs Were; Or If Thou Wert To Feed Upon Toads For A Year Together? If Thou Couldst Not Endure Such Things As These, How Wilt Thou Endure The Eternal Flames ?

Though Selfishness Hath Defiled The Whole Man, Yet Sensual Pleasure Is The Chief Part Of Its Interest, And, Therefore, By The Senses It Commonly Works; And These Are The Doors And Windows By Which Iniquity Entereth Into The Soul.

Death Is Half Disarmed When The Pleasures And Interests Of The Flesh Are First Denied.