There Is A Difference Between Having A

I Frequently Hear Persons In Old Age Say How They Would Live, If They Were To Live Their Lives Over Again: Resolved, That I Will Live Just So As I Can Think I Shall Wish I Had Done, Supposing I Live To Old Age.

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.

That There Should Absolutely Be Nothing At All Is Utterly Impossible. The Mind, Let It Stretch Its Conceptions Ever So Far, Can Never So Much As Bring Itself To Conceive Of A State Of Perfect Nothing.

The Ingenerating Of A Principle Of Grace In The Soul Seems In Scripture To Be Compared To The Conceiving Of Christ In The Womb... And The Conception Of Christ In The Womb Of The Blessed Virgin By The Power Of The Holy Ghost, Seems To Be A Designed Resemblance Of The Conception Of Christ In The Soul Of A Believer By The Power Of The Same Holy Ghost.

By Christ's Purchasing Redemption, Two Things Are Intended: His Satisfaction And His Merit; The One Pays Our Debt, And So Satisfies; The Other Procures Our Title, And So Merits. The Satisfaction Of Christ Is To Free Us From Misery; The Merit Of Christ Is To Purchase Happiness For Us.