An Ounce Of Mirth Is

Will Any Man That Hath Not Lost His Senses, Now Stand Caviling, And Quarrelling, That So Few Should Be Saved, Instead Of Making Sure Of His Own Salvation? The Reason That There Are So Few Is, Because They Will Not Be Saved Upon God's Terms.

See That Your Chief Study Be About Heart, That There God's Image May Be Planted, And His Interest Advanced, And The Interest Of The World And Flesh Subdued, And The Love Of Every Sin Cast Out, And The Love Of Holiness Succeed; And That You Content Not Yourselves With Seeming To Do Good In Outward Acts, When You Are Bad Yourselves, And Strangers To The Great Internal Duties. The First And Great Work Of A Christian Is About His Heart.

God Takes Men's Hearty Desires And Will, Instead Of The Deed, Where They Have Not Power To Fulfill It; But He Never Took The Bare Deed Instead Of The Will.

In A Divine Commonwealth Holiness Must Have The Principal Honor And Encouragement, And A Great Difference Be Made Between The Precious And The Vile.

I Tell You Again, God Hath Not Ordinarily Decreed The End Without The Means; And If You Will Neglect The Means Of Salvation, It Is A Certain Mark That God Hath Not Decreed You To Salvation. But You Shall Find That He Hath Left You No Excuse, Because He Hath Not Thus Predestined You.