God's all-seeing presence is a preservative against sin and a means to make you watchful over all your ways and actions.
Carry all your sins with the solemnity of penitential tears, to their eternal funeral in Christ!
It is hard to destroy sin, but will it not be harder to be damned for it?
In our folly we see the faults of others, more than to see our own. Learn the are of self-examination, which is the way to self-reformation!
Let us offer up ourselves to the Lord as a whole-burnt-offering, in the ascending flames of purest affections!
An idle person is the Devil's workshop. There Satan works, ever busy when men are most idle!
Ministers should make it their business not to set forth new notions, but to press on Christians old truths, and known duties.
It is hard to mortify sin, but will it not be harder to be damned for it?
Do we not all have sins of the greatest magnitude, even though we have mercies of the highest nature?
In our folly we see other's faults, more than to see our own. Learn the art of self-reflection, which is the way to self-reformation.
Let us offer up ourselves to the Lord as a whole-burnt-offering, in the ascending flames of purest affections.
What expectations God has to see a repenting, reforming, holy, obedient frame on our reception of such a wonderful salvation from him!
[Thomas Gouge]
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