The More Reverence We Have For The

Extraordinary Afflictions Are Not Always The Punishment Of Extraordinary Sins, But Sometimes The Trial Of Extraordinary Graces.

In Order To The Attaining Of All Useful Knowledge This Is Most Necessary, That We Fear God; We Are Not Qualified To Profit By The Instructions That Are Given Us Unless Our Minds Be Possessed With A Holy Reverence Of God, And Every Thought Within Us Be Brought Into Obedience To Him.... As All Our Knowledge Must Take Rise From The Fear Of God, So It Must Tend To It As Its Perfection And Centre. Those Know Enough Who Know How To Fear God, Who Are Careful In Every Thing To Please Him And Fearful Of Offending Him In Any Thing; This Is The Alpha And Omega Of Knowledge.

Those Whom God Will Employ Are First Struck With A Sense Of Their Unworthiness To Be Employed.

By The Light Of Nature We See God As A God Above Us, By The Light Of The Law We See Him As A God Against Us, But By The Light Of The Gospel We See Him As Emmanuel, God With Us.

Though We May Now Think Some Sins Light And Little, If The Lord Awaken The Conscience, We Shall Feel Even The Smallest Sin Heavy Upon Our Souls.