No Degree Of Speculative Knowledge Of Religion

Your Wickedness Makes You As It Were Heavy As Lead, And To Tend Downwards With Great Weight And Pressure Towards Hell; And If God Should Let You Go, You Would Immediately Sink And Switfly Descend And Plunge Into The Bottomless Gulf, And Your Healthy Constitution, And Your Own Care And Prudence, And Best Contrivance, And All Your Righteousness, Would Have No More Influence To Uphold You And Keep You Out Of Hell, Than A Spider's Web Would Have To Stop A Fallen Rock.

The God That Holds You Over The Pit Of Hell, Much As One Holds A Spider... Abhors You, And Is Dreadfully Provoked: His Wrath Towards You Burns Like Fire; He Looks Upon You As Worthy Of Nothing Else, But To Be Cast Into The Fire.

It Is God’s Will Through His Wonderful Grace, That The Prayers Of His Saints Should Be One Of The Great Principal Means Of Carrying On The Designs Of Christ’s Kingdom In The World. When God Has Something Very Great To Accomplish For His Church, It Is His Will That There Should Precede It The Extraordinary Prayers Of His People; As Is Manifest By Ezekiel 36:37. And It Is Revealed That, When God Is About To Accomplish Great Things For His Church, He Will Begin By Remarkably Pouring Out The Spirit Of Grace And Supplication (see Zechariah 12:10).

When God Is About To Bestow Some Great Blessing On His Church, It Is Often His Manner, In The First Place, So To Order Things In His Providence As To Show His Church Their Great Need Of It, And To Bring Them Into Distress For Want Of It, And So Put Them Upon Crying Earnestly To Him For It.

Intend To Live In Continual Mortification, And Never To Expect Or Desire Any Worldly Ease Or Pleasure.