The Chains Of Love Are Stronger Than

What Is Jordan That I Should Wash In It? What Is The Preaching That I Should Attend On It, While I Hear Nothing But What I Knew Before? What Are These Beggarly Elements Of Water, Bread, And Wine? Are Not These The Reasonings Of A Soul That Forgets Who Appoints The Means Of Grace?

He That Is Impatient, And Cannot Wait On God For A Mercy, Will Not Easily Submit To Him In A Denial.

Hope Fills The Afflicted Soul With Such Inward Joy And Consolation, That It Can Laugh While Tears Are In The Eye, Sigh And Sing All In A Breath; It Is Called "the Rejoicing Of Hope" (hebrews 3:6).

Praying Is The Same To The New Creature As Crying Is To The Natural. The Child Is Not Learned By Art Or Example To Cry, But Instructed By Nature; It Comes Into The World Crying. Praying Is Not A Lesson Got By Forms And Rules Of Art, But Flowing From Principles Of New Life Itself.

As The Eye Of The Body Once Put Out, Can Never Be Restored By The Creature's Art, So Neither Can The Spiritual Eye Lost By Adam's Sin Be Restored By The Teaching Of Men Or Angels. It Is One Of The Diseases Which Christ Came To Cure.