Truth Is The Agreement Of Our Ideas

A Truly Humble Man Is Sensible Of His Natural Distance From God; Of His Dependence On Him; Of The Insufficiency Of His Own Power And Wisdom; And That It Is By God's Power That He Is Upheld And Provided For, And That He Needs God's Wisdom To Lead And Guide Him, And His Might To Enable Him To Do What He Ought To Do For Him.

True Boldness For Christ Transcends All, It Is Indifference To The Displeasure Of Either Friends Or Foes. Boldness Enables Christians To Forsake All Rather Than Christ, And To Prefer To Offend All Rather Than To Offend Him.

If There Be Ground For You To Trust, As You Do, In Your Own Righteousness, Then All That Christ Did To Purchase Salvation, And All That God Did From The Fall Of Man To Prepare The Way For It, Is In Vain. Consider What Greater Folly Could You Have Devised To Charge Upon God Than This, That All Those Things Were Done So Needlessly; When, Instead Of All This, He Might Only Have Called You Forth, And Committed The Business To You, Which You Think You Can Do So Easily.

There Is A Difference Between Having A Rational Judgment That Honey Is Sweet, And Having A Sense Of Its Sweetness

As It Is With Spiritual Discoveries And Affections Given At First Conversion, So It Is In All Subsequent Illuminations And Affections Of That Kind; They Are All Transforming. There Is A Like Divine Power And Energy In Them As In The First Discoveries; They Still Reach The Bottom Of The Heart, And Affect And Alter The Very Nature Of The Soul, In Proportion To The Degree In Which They Are Given. And A Transformation Of Nature Is Continued And Carried On By Them To The End Of Life, Until It Is Brought To Perfection In Glory.