Surely Love Is Both Work And Wages.

Special Mercy Arouses More Gratitude Than Universal Mercy.

Get Masters Of Families To Do Their Duty, And They Will Not Only Spare You A Great Deal Of Labor, But Will Much Further The Success Of Your Labors. You Are Not Like To See Any General Reformation, Till You Procure Family Reformation. Some Little Religion There May Be, Here And There; But While It Is Confined To Single Persons, And Is Not Promoted In Families, It Will Not Prosper, Nor Promise Much Future Increase.

Of All The Preaching In The World, I Hate That Preaching Which Tends To Make The Hearers Laugh, Or To Move Their Minds With Tickling Levity And Affect Them As Stage Plays Used To, Instead Of Affecting Them With A Holy Reverence For The Name Of God.

If Family Religion Were Duly Attended To And Properly Discharged, I Think The Preaching Of The Word Would Not Be The Common Instrument Of Conversion.

Such Is The Depth Of The Christian Scriptures, That Even If I Were Attempting To Study Them And Nothing Else From Early Boyhood To Decrepit Old Age, With The Utmost Leisure, The Most Unwearied Zeal, And Talents Greater Than I Have, I Would Be Still Daily Making Progress In Discovering Their Treasures.