Truth Is The Agreement Of

If The Heart Be Chiefly And Directly Fixed On God, And The Soul Engaged To Glorify Him, Some Degree Of Religious Affection Will Be The Effect And Attendant Of It. But To Seek After Affection Directly And Chiefly; To Have The Heart Principally Set Upon That; Is To Place It In The Room Of God And His Glory. If It Be Sought, That Others May Take Notice Of It, And Admire Us For Our Spirituality And Forwardness In Religion, It Is Then Damnable Pride; If For The Sake Of Feeling The Pleasure Of Being Affected, It Is Then Idolatry And Self-gratification.

One Of These Grand Defects, As I Humbly Conceive, Is This, That Children Are Habituated To Learning Without Understanding.

Nothing Is More Certain Than That There Must Be An Unmade And Unlimited Being.

You All Have By You A Large Treasure Of Divine Knowledge, In That You Have The Bible In Your Hands; Therefore Be Not Contented In Possessing But Little Of This Treasure.

The Surest Way To Know Our Gold, Is To Look Upon It And Examine It In God's Furnace, Where He Tries It That We May See What It Is. If We Have A Mind To Know Whether A Building Stands Strong Or Not, We Must Look Upon It When The Wind Blows. If We Would Know Whether A Staff Be Strong, Or A Rotten, Broken Reed, We Must Observe It When It Is Leaned On And Weight Is Borne Upon It. If We Would Weigh Ourselves Justly We Must Weigh Ourselves In God's Scales That He Makes Use Of To Weigh Us.