You May Know God, But

Keep Your Children As Much As May Be From Ill Company, Especially Of Ungodly Playfellows. It Is One Of The Greatest Dangers For The Undoing Of Children In The World; Especially When They Are Sent To Common Schools: For There Is Scarce Any Of Those Schools So Good, But Hath Many Rude And Ungodly Ill-taught Children In It.

A Holy And Heavenly Life Is A Continual Pain To The Consciences Of Sinners Around You And Continually Solicits Them To Change Their Course.

Till Men Are Deeply Humbled, They Can Part With Christ And Salvation For A Lust, For A Little Wordly Gain, For That Which Is Less Than Nothing. But When God Hath Enlightened Their Consciences, And Broken Their Hearts, Then They Would Give A World For Christ.

If A Man That Is Desperately Sick Today, Did Believe He Should Arise Sound The Next Morning; Or A Man Today, In Despicable Poverty, Had Assurance That He Should Tomorrow Arise A Prince: Would They Be Afraid To Go To Bed....?

Naturally, Men Are Prone To Spin Themselves A Web Of Opinions Out Of Their Own Brain, And To Have A Religion That May Be Called Their Own. They Are Far Readier To Make Themselves A Faith, Than To Receive That Which God Hath Formed To Their Hands; Are Far Readier To Receive A Doctrine That Tends To Their Carnal Commodity, Or Honor, Or Delight, Than One That Tends To Self-denial.