Not To Be Daily Mortifying Sin, Is

A Natural Man Hath No Such Thing As Free-will At All, If You Take It For A Power Of Doing That Which Is Good And Well-pleasing Unto God In Things Spiritual.

To The Sick Man The Physician When He Enters Seems To Have Three Faces, Those Of A Man, A Devil, A God. When The Physician First Comes And Announces The Safety Of The Patient, Then The Sick Man Says: "behold A God Or A Guardian Angel!

Sin Also Carries On Its War By Entangling The Affections And Drawing Them Into An Alliance Against The Mind. Grace May Be Enthroned In The Mind, But If Sin Controls The Affections, It Has Seized A Fort From Which It Will Continually Assault The Soul. Hence, As We Shall See, Mortification Is Chiefly Directed To Take Place Upon The Affections.

Let Not That Man Think He Makes Any Progress In Holiness Who Walks Not Over The Bellies Of His Lusts. He Who Doth Not Kill Sin In This Way Takes No Steps Toward His Journey's End.

All Things I Thought I Knew; But Now Confess The More I Know, I Know, I Know The Less.