Sinners, Hear And Consider, If

An Aching Tooth Is Better Out Than In. To Lose A Rotting Member Is A Gain.

It Is Not The Reading Of Many Books Which Is Necessary To Make A Man Wise Or Good; But Well Reading Of A Few.

It Is True, That Men May Have Christ Whenever They Are Willing To Comply With His Terms. But If You Are Not Willing Now, How Can You Think You Shall Be Willing Hereafter?

When Christ Comes With Regenerating Grace, He Finds No Man Sitting Still, But All Posting To Eternal Ruin, And Making Haste Toward Hell; Till, By Conviction, He First Brings Them To A Stand, And Then, By Conversion, Turn First Their Hearts, And Then Their Lives, Sincerely To Himself.

And Though It Be Their Sin And Vanity That Is The Cause, It Is Nevertheless Your Sin To Be The Unnecessary Occasion: For You Must Consider That You Live Among Diseased Souls. And You Must Not Lay A Stumblingblock In Their Way, Nor Blow Up The Fire Of Their Lust, Nor Make Your Ornaments Their Snares; But You Must Walk Among Sinful Persons, As You Would Do With A Candle Among Straw Or Gunpowder; Or Else You May See The Flame Which You Would Not Foresee, When It Is Too Late To Quench It.