Preaching, In The First Sense Of The

No Man Is The Wiser For His Learning

All Things Are God's Already; We Can Give Him No Right, By Consecrating Any, That He Had Not Before, Only We Set It Apart To His Service - Just As A Gardener Brings His Master A Basket Of Apricots, And Presents Them; His Lord Thanks Him, And Perhaps Gives Him Something For His Pains, And Yet The Apricots Were As Much His Lord's Before As Now.

In A Troubled State We Must Do As In Foul Weather Upon A River, Not Think To Cut Directly Through, For The Boat May Be Filled With Water; But Rise And Fall As The Waves Do, And Give Way As Much As We Conveniently Can.

Those That Govern Most Make Least Noise.

Ceremony Keeps Up Things: 'tis Like A Penny Glass To A Rich Spirit, Or Some Excellent Water; Without It The Water Were Spilt, And The Spirit Lost.