To The Sick Man The Physician When

Great Winds And Storms Help Fruit-bearing Trees. So Also Do Corruptions And Temptations Help The Fruitfulness Of Grace And Holiness. The Storm Loosens The Earth Round Its Roots So The Tree Is Able To Get Its Roots Deeper Into The Earth, Where It Receives Fresh Supplies Of Nourishment. But Only Much Later Will It Be Seen To Bring Forth Better Fruit. So Corruptions And Temptations Develop The Roots Of Humility, Self-abasement And Mourning In A Deeper Search For That Grace By Which Holiness Grows Strong. But Only Later Will There Be Visible Fruits Of Increased Holiness.

The Root Of An Unmortified Course Is The Digestion Of Sin Without Bitterness In The Heart.

There Is Not A Day But Sin Foils Or Is Foiled, Prevails Or Is Prevailed On; And It Will Be So Whilst We Live In This World.

Never Was Sin Seen To Be More Abominably Sinful And Full Of Provocation Than When The Burden Of It Was Upon The Shoulders Of The Son Of God...would You, Then, See The True Demerit Of Sin?-take The Measure Of It From The Mediation Of Christ, Especially His Cross.

God Hath Work To Do In This World; And To Desert It Because Of Its Difficulties And Entanglements, Is To Cast Off His Authority. It Is Not Enough That We Be Just, That We Be Righteous, And Walk With God In Holiness; But We Must Also Serve Our Generation, As David Did Before He Fell Asleep. God Hath A Work To Do; And Not To Help Him Is To Oppose Him.