Faith Makes All Evil Good To Us,

The Man Who Labors To Please His Neighbor For His Good To Edification Has The Mind That Was In Christ. It Is A Sinner Trying To Help A Sinner. Even A Feeble, But Kind And Tender Man, Will Effect More Than A Genius, Who Is Rough And Artificial.

When A Founder Has Cast A Bell He Does Not Presently Fix It In The Steeple, But Tries It With His Hammer, And Beats It On Every Side To See If There Be Any Flaw In It. So Christ Doth Not Presently After He Hath Converted A Man, Convey Him To Heaven; But Suffers Him First To Be Beaten Upon By Many Temptations And Then Exalts Him To His Crown.

Sin, Without Strong Restraints, Would Pull God From His Throne, Make The World The Minion Of Its Lusts, And All Beings Bow Down And Worship.

In Viewing The Scheme Of Redemption, I Seem Like One Viewing A Vast And Complicated Machine Of Exquisite Contrivance; What I Comprehend Of It Is Wonderful, What I Do Not, Is, Perhaps, More So Still.

I Could Write Down Twenty Cases Wherein I Wished That God Had Done Otherwise Than He Did, But Which I Now See, If I Had Had My Own Way, Would Have Led To Extensive Mischief.