We Must View Humility As One Of

Such Is Man's Nature, That He Is Very Inactive And Lazy Unless He Is Influenced By Some Affection, Either Love Or Hatred, Desire, Hope, Fear, Or Some Other. These Affections We See To Be The Springs That Set Men Agoing, In All The Affairs Of Life, And Engage Them In All Their Pursuits: These Are The Things That Put Men Forward, And Carry Them Along.

Nothing Sets A Person So Much Out Of The Devil's Reach As Humility.

Surely There Is Something In The Unruffled Calm Of Nature That Overawes Our Little Anxieties And Doubts; The Sight Of The Deep-blue Sky And The Clustering Stars Above Seems To Impart A Quiet To The Mind.

Jesus Christ Is Both The Only Price And Sacrifice By Which Eternal Redemption Is Obtained For Believers.

As It Is With Spiritual Discoveries And Affections Given At First Conversion, So It Is In All Subsequent Illuminations And Affections Of That Kind; They Are All Transforming. There Is A Like Divine Power And Energy In Them As In The First Discoveries; They Still Reach The Bottom Of The Heart, And Affect And Alter The Very Nature Of The Soul, In Proportion To The Degree In Which They Are Given. And A Transformation Of Nature Is Continued And Carried On By Them To The End Of Life, Until It Is Brought To Perfection In Glory.