True Virtue Never Appears So Lovely As

Family Education And Order Are Some Of The Chief Means Of Grace; If These Are Duly Maintained, All The Means Of Grace Are Likely To Prosper And Become Effectual.

Sincere Friendship Towards God, In All Who Believe Him To Be Properly An Intelligent, Willing Being, Does Most Apparently, Directly, And Strongly Incline To Prayer; And It No Less Disposes The Heart Strongly To Desire To Have Our Infinitely Glorious.

That The Reason Why They Are Not Fallen Already And Do Not Fall Now Is Only That God's Appointed Time Is Not Come. For It Is Said, That When That Due Time, Or Appointed Time Comes, Their Foot Shall Slide. Then They Shall Be Left To Fall, As They Are Inclined By Their Own Weight. God Will Not Hold Them Up In These Slippery Places Any Longer, But Will Let Them Go; And Then, At That Very Instant, They Shall Fall Into Destruction; As He That Stands On Such Slippery Declining Ground, On The Edge Of A Pit, He Cannot Stand Alone, When He Is Let Go He Immediately Falls And Is Lost.

Assurance Is Not To Be Obtained So Much By Self-examination As By Action

God Is Glorified Not Only By His Glory Being Seen, But By Its Being Rejoiced In.