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I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.

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So then, let "Deserved" be written on the door of hell, but on the door of Heaven and life, "The free gift" (68).

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O what a blessed day that will be when I shall . . . stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas I have safely passed; when I shall review my ...more

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As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99).

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What if you had once seen hell open, and all the damned there in their easeless torments, and had heard them crying out of their slothfulness in the d...more

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Even innocent Adam is liker to forget God in a paradise, than Joseph in a prison, or Job upon a dunghill(376)[.]

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He that dare not die, dare scarce fight valiantly (475).

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Either paganish unbelief of the truth of that eternal blessedness, and of the truth of the Scripture which doth promise it to us; or, at least, a doub...more

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Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279).

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Why dost thou not see that on earth they desires fly from thee? Art thou a not as a child that thinketh to travel to the sun, when he seeth it rising ...more

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[O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.]

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The way of painful duty is the way of fullest comfort. Christ carrieth all our comforts in his hand : if we are out of that way where Christ is to be ...more

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O sirs, how many souls, then, have every one of us been guilty of damning! What a number of our neighbours and acquaintance are dead, in whom we disce...more

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What if you had seen haven open as Stephen did, and all the saints there triumphing in glory, and enjoying the end of their labours and sufferings, wh...more

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Yet I must tell you, that all these graces which are expressed by passions of sorrow, fear, joy, hope, love, are not so certainly to be tried by the p...more