God's Wounds Cure, Sin's Kisses

As The Eye Of The Body Once Put Out, Can Never Be Restored By The Creature's Art, So Neither Can The Spiritual Eye Lost By Adam's Sin Be Restored By The Teaching Of Men Or Angels. It Is One Of The Diseases Which Christ Came To Cure.

Sometimes, Perhaps, Thou Hearest Another Pray With Much Freedom And Fluency, Whilst Thou Canst Hardly Get Out A Few Broken Words. Hence Thou Art Ready To Accuse Thyself And Admire Him, As If The Gilding Of The Key Made It Open The Door The Better.

We Need Not Borrow And Take Up Sorrows Upon Use Of The Morrow, To Make Up Our Present Load; As We Read Of Daily Bread, So Of A Daily Cross, Luke Ix. M, Which We Are Bid To Take, Not To Make.

And Therefore You Who Think So Basely Of The Gospel And The Professors Of It, Because At Present Their Peace And Comfort Is Not Come, Know It Is On The Way To Them, And Comes To Stay Everlastingly With Them; Whereas Your Peace Is Going From You Every Moment, And Is Sure To Leave You Without Any Hope Of Returning To You Again. Look Not How The Christian Begins, But Ends. The Spirit Of God By His Convictions Comes Into The Soul With Some Terrors, But It Closeth With Peace And Joy.

We Live By Faith, And Faith Lives By Exercise.