Faith, If It Be A Living Faith,

Faith, If It Be A Living Faith, Will Be A Working Faith.

Many There Are Who, Not Comprehending, Not Being Affected With, That Divine, Spiritual Description Of The Person Of Christ Which Is Given Us By The Holy Ghost In The Scripture, Do Feign Unto Themselves False Representations Of Him By Images And Pictures, So As To Excite Carnal And Corrupt Affections In Their Minds. By The Help Of Their Outward Senses, They Reflect On Their Imaginations The Shape Of A Human Body, Cast Into Postures And Circumstances Dolorous Or Triumphant; And So, By The Working Of Their Fancy, Raise A Commotion Of Mind In Themselves, Which They Suppose To Be Love Unto Christ.

Satan's Greatest Success Is In Making People Think They Have Plenty Of Time Before They Die To Consider Their Eternal Welfare.

Temptations And Occasions Put Nothing Into A Man, But Only Draw Out What Was In Him Before.

I Will Not Judge A Person To Be Spiritually Dead Whom I Have Judged Formerly To Have Had Spiritual Life, Though I See Him At Present In A Swoon (faint)as To All Evidences Of The Spiritual Life. And The Reason Why I Will Not Judge Him So Is This -- Because If You Judge A Person Dead, You Neglect Him, You Leave Him; But If You Judge Him In A Swoon,(faint) Though Never So Dangerous, You Use All Means For The Retrieving Of His Life.