Christ Is The True Light Of The

Trust In God And Ye Need Not Fear.

The Bow Of God's Wrath Is Bent, And His Arrows Made Ready Upon The String. Justice Points The Arrow At Your Heart And Strings The Bow. It Is Nothing But The Mere Pleasure Of God (and That Of An Angry God Without Any Promise Or Obligation At All) That Keeps The Arrow One Moment From Being Made Drunk With Your Blood.

The Way To Heaven Is Ascending; We Must Be Content To Travel Uphill, Though It Be Hard And Tiresome, And Contrary To The Natural Bias Of Our Flesh.

Spiritual Delight In God Arises Chiefly From His Beauty And Perfection, Not From The Blessings He Gives Us.

As It Is With Spiritual Discoveries And Affections Given At First Conversion, So It Is In All Subsequent Illuminations And Affections Of That Kind; They Are All Transforming. There Is A Like Divine Power And Energy In Them As In The First Discoveries; They Still Reach The Bottom Of The Heart, And Affect And Alter The Very Nature Of The Soul, In Proportion To The Degree In Which They Are Given. And A Transformation Of Nature Is Continued And Carried On By Them To The End Of Life, Until It Is Brought To Perfection In Glory.