The Man That Takes Up

The Law, Instead Of Cleansing The Heart From Sin, Doth Revive It, Put Strength Into, And Increase It In The Soul, Even As It Doth Discover And Forbid It, For It Doth Not Give Power To Subdue.

But Pleasures Are Like Poppies Spread: You Seize The Flower

As Your Faith Is, Such Your Hope Will Be. Hope Is Never Ill When Faith Is Well, Nor Strong If Faith Be Weak.

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.

Man Indeed Is The Most Noble, By Creation, Of All The Creatures In The Visible World; But By Sin He Has Made Himself The Most Ignoble.