Seek Not To Grow In Knowledge Chiefly

No Degree Of Speculative Knowledge Of Religion Is Any Certain Sign Of True Piety.

True Virtue Never Appears So Lovely As When It Is Most Oppressed; And The Divine Excellency Of Real Christianity Is Never Exhibited With Such Advantage As When Under The Greatest Trials; Then It Is That True Faith Appears Much More Precious Than Gold, And Upon This Account Is "found To Praise And Honour And Glory.

Temples Have Their Images; And We See What Influence They Have Always Had Over A Great Part Of Mankind. But, In Truth, The Ideas And Images In Men's Minds Are The Invisible Powers That Constantly Govern Them; And To These They All Pay Universally A Ready Submission.

A Man Who Knows That He Lives In Sin Against God Will Not Be Inclined To Come Daily Into The Presence Of God.

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.