…had the heart been well guarded at first, it had never come to this height: the temptation had been stopped in the first or second act. And indeed there it is stopped easily: for it is the motions of a… Continue Reading
I think it is not very difficult to discern, by the duties and [conversations] of Christians, what frames their spirits are under; take a Christian in a good frame, and how serious, heavenly, and profitable, will his [conversations] and duties… Continue Reading
“To lose the heavenly warmth and spiritual liveliness of your affections is undoubtedly a far more considerable loss than to lose the wife of your bosom, or the sweetest child that ever a tender parent laid in the grave…It is… Continue Reading
“All the delights in the sensual life are but as the putrid waters of a corrupt pond where toads lie croaking and spawning, compared to the crystal streams of the most pure and pleasant fountain.” –John Flavel, The Method of… Continue Reading