There Is Nothing That Keeps Wicked Men

To Mark All That I Say In Conversation, Merely To Beget In Others, A Good Opinion Of Myself, And Examine It.

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.

Immediately Upon The Fall, The Mind Of Man Shrank From Its Primitive Greatness And Expandedness, To An Exceeding Smallness And Contractedness... Before, His Soul Was Under The Government Of The Noble Principles Of Divine Love, Whereby It Was Enlarged To The Comprehensiveness Of All His Fellow Creatures And Their Welfare... [but] Sin, Like Some Powerful Astringent, Contracted His Soul To The Very Small Dimensions Of Selfishness, And God Was Forsaken, And Man Retired Within Himself, And Became Totally Governed By Narrow And Selfish Principles And Feelings.

Remember That Pride Is The Worst Viper That Is In The Heart, The Greatest Disturber Of The Soul's Peace And Sweet Communion With Christ; It Was The First Sin That Ever Was, And Lies Lowest In The Foundation Of Satan's Whole Building, And Is The Most Difficultly Rooted Out, And Is The Most Hidden, Secret And Deceitful Of All Lusts, And Often Creeps In, Insensibly, Into The Midst Of Religion And Sometimes Under The Disguise Of Humility.

Resolution One: I Will Live For God. Resolution Two: If No One Else Does, I Still Will.