You Have Chosen The Roughest Road, But

But Pleasures Are Like Poppies Spread: You Seize The Flower

Therefore, I Bind These Lies And Slanderous Accusations To My Person As An Ornament; It Belongs To My Christian Profession To Be Vilified, Slandered, Reproached And Reviled, And Since All This Is Nothing But That, As God And My Conscience Testify, I Rejoice In Being Reproached For Christ's Sake.

Let Dissolution Come When It Will, It Can Do The Christian No Harm, For It Will Be But A Passage Out Of A Prison Into A Palace; Out Of A Sea Of Troubles Into A Haven Of Rest; Out Of A Crowd Of Enemies, To An Innumerable Company Of True, Loving, And Faithful Friends; Out Of Shame, Reproach, And Contempt, Into Exceeding Great And Eternal Glory.

The Man Who Does Not Know The Nature Of The Law, Cannot Know The Nature Of Sin.

The Swamp Of Despond Is That Place Set Before The Narrow Gate Where True And False Pilgrims Alike Are Assaulted By Their Own Internal Corruption And Pollution. The Dirt And Scum That Has Attached Itself To Our Hearts And Minds Is Agitated And Revealed By Both The Workings Of A Guilty Conscience And The Devouring Avarice Of The Enemy Of Our Souls.the