The View Of The Misery

That The Reason Why They Are Not Fallen Already And Do Not Fall Now Is Only That God's Appointed Time Is Not Come. For It Is Said, That When That Due Time, Or Appointed Time Comes, Their Foot Shall Slide. Then They Shall Be Left To Fall, As They Are Inclined By Their Own Weight. God Will Not Hold Them Up In These Slippery Places Any Longer, But Will Let Them Go; And Then, At That Very Instant, They Shall Fall Into Destruction; As He That Stands On Such Slippery Declining Ground, On The Edge Of A Pit, He Cannot Stand Alone, When He Is Let Go He Immediately Falls And Is Lost.

The Deceitfulness Of The Heart Of Man Appears In No One Thing So Much As This Of Spiritual Pride And Self-righteousness. The Subtlety Of Satan Appears In Its Height, In His Managing Persons With Respect To This Sin. And Perhaps One Reason May Be That Here He Has Most Experience; He Knows The Way Of Its Coming In; He Is Acquainted With The Secret Springs Of It: It Was His Own Sin. Experience Gives Vast Advantage In Leading Souls, Either In Good Or Evil.

Sincere Friendship Towards God, In All Who Believe Him To Be Properly An Intelligent, Willing Being, Does Most Apparently, Directly, And Strongly Incline To Prayer; And It No Less Disposes The Heart Strongly To Desire To Have Our Infinitely Glorious.

Grace Is The Seed Of Glory, The Dawning Of Glory In The Heart, And Therefore Grace Is The Earnest Of The Future Inheritance.

To Mark All That I Say In Conversation, Merely To Beget In Others, A Good Opinion Of Myself, And Examine It.