The Soldier Is Summoned To A Life

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).

God, To Prevent All Escape, Hath Sown The Seeds Of Death In Our Very Constitution And Nature, So That We Can As Soon Run From Ourselves, As Run From Death. We Need No Feller To Come With A Hand Of Violence And Hew Us Down; There Is In The Tree A Worm, Which Grows Out Of Its Own Substance, That Will Destroy It; So In Us, Those Infirmities Of Nature That Will Bring Us Down To The Dust.

It Is No Policy To Let Thy Lusts Have Arms, Which Are Sure To Rise And Declare Against Thee When Thine Enemy Comes.

Many Lose Heaven Because They Are Ashamed To Go In A Fool's Coat Thither.