How can we say that we love Christ, if we love fin, which was an enemy to his life and foul when he was on earth; and is an enemy to his glory now he is in heaven?

Our fins cried as loud to heaven, as the Jews did to earth, that Chrift might be crucified.

Go to Golgotha, and fee what fin did there. Chrift did not die for fin, that we might live to fin.

Chrift died that our fins might die, and our fouls live.

Sin received its fentence in the death of Chrift; but it doth not receive its execution till the death of a chriftian.

All our fins fhall not feparate between God and our fouls, if unbelief doth not feparate between Chrift and our fouls.

There is no fin but what may be traced up to unbelief.

He that glories in his fin, glories in his fhame. We fhould be afhamed of fin, but not ashamed to take fhame for fin.

Get this principle into your hearts; there is nothing got by fin, nor loft by holiness.

By fuffering we may avoid finning; but by finning we cannot avoid fuffering.

One that truly fears God, is afraid of fin; he fees more evil in it than in all the evil in the world. If we be not humble for fin, we derogate from the majefty of God; if we defpair under it, we derogate from his mercy.

One that is fincere hates fin in himself, and laments it in others.

Our hatred of fin must be irreconcileable, and our endeavors against it perpetual.

The fins of the wicked anger Chrift, the fins of his people grieve him.

Want of forrow for fin, more argues want of love to Chrift, than the fin itself.

Sin is a believer's burden and wound, but Chrift is his cure and comfort.

Sin is the ficknefs of the foul, and Chrift the only physician, that can cure it of the leprofy of profanenefs, the fever of concupifcence, the dropfy of covetoufness, the tympany of pride, the le thargy of lukewarmnefs, the phrenzy of paffion, and the palfy of unbelief.

Hatred is heart-murder; luft is heart-adultery; and covetoufnefs heart-ftealing,

How tender is our flefh? How hard our hearts? i. e. How much more fenfible are we of fuffering than fin?

We fhould fear to think that before God which we are afraid to do before man; for God knows our hearts better than any man knows our faces.

Vain thoughts are fin's advocates, and Chrift's adverfaries.

God is fo holy, that he would not fuffer fuch an evil as fin; but that he is fo wife, that he can bring good out of it.

OF REPENTANCE.

Repentance begins in the humiliation of the heart, and ends in the reformation of the life. Though we want power to repent; yet we do not want means to repent, nor power to use these

means.

He that repents of fin, as fin, doth implicitly repent of all fin.

Let not finful pleasures prevent godly forrows. An humble confeffion of fin brings fhame to ourselves, but glory to God.

You cannot repent too foon. There is no day like to-day. Yefterday is gone, to-morrow is God's, not your own. And, think how fad it

will be to have your evidences to feek, when your caufe is to be tried; to have your oil to buy, when you fhould have it to burn!

Let the hopes of mercy encourage to the exercise of repentance.

Turn to God, and he will turn to you; and then you are happy, though all the world turn against you.

If we think amifs of Chrift, we shall never believe if we think well of fin, we fhall never repent.

If we put off our repentance to another day, we have a day more to repent of, and a day lefs to repent in.

If we ftudy to honor God, we cannot do it better than by confeffing our fins, and laying ourselves low at the feet of Chrift.

Godly forrow is the forrow of love; the melting of the heart: love is the pain and pleasure of a mourning heart.

The evangelical penitent loves and grieves. "Alas (faith he) that I, who am as high as heaven in privilege, fhould be as deep as hell in iniquity instead of repenting, I have ran farther on fcore! inftead of honoring God, I have difhonored him! inftead of pleating him, I have provoked him! inftead of following him, I have forfaken him!--O what bowels have I grieved! how can I fin against my Jefus! fhall I de

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and crucify my faviour! He was crucified for me, and fhall he be crucified by me? Shall I wound his heart, and pierce his fide again, and give him caufe to fay, thefe are the wounds I received in the houfe of my friends."

OF FAITH.

Reliance is the effence of faith, Chrift is the object, the word is the food, and obedience the proof: fo that true faith is a depending upon Chrift for falvation in a way of obedience, as he is offered in the word.

The true tears of repentance flow from the eye of faith.

Though faith be necessary to our juftification, good works are neceffary to our falvation.

We must derive our works from faith, and demonftrate our faith by our works.

God is often pleased to imbitter a life of sense, that he may endear the life of faith."

A ftedfaft faith begets a conftant peace.
The more faith the more humility.

Keep good principles, and they will keep you. Men would firft fee, and then belieye; but they muft firft believe, and then fee.

As believers live upon Chrift by faith, so they live to him by obedience.

Juftifying faith is always attended with univerfal obedience.

There is a difference between contending for the faith, and babbling for a fancy.

Affurance fets the notion of faith too high, affent too low.

There is as much difference between faith and

affurance, as there is between the root and the fruit.

There may be joy without faith, and there may be faith without joy.

Human faith is founded upon probability, divine faith upon certainty.

If the exercife of faith be the care of your fouls the end of your faith will be the falvation of your fouls.

OF HUMILITY.

To be low is the fafeft and comlieft pofture for finful creatures.

It is the creature's honor to abafe himself before the most high God.

God had rather fee his children humble for fin, than proud of grace.

If men did but know them felves more, they would be more humble.

They that are humble, are content and thankful.

An humble fpirit is a charitable and quiet fpirit.

Judge thy felf with a judgment of fincerity, and thou wilt judge others with a judgment of charity.

To humble our felves, is the only way to rife. Believers must be humble for fin pardoned, and because it is pardoned.

When Paul was a pharifee, he thought he was blameless; when he was a chriftian, the chief of finners: before, any thing but Chrift: now, none but Chrift.

If Chrift humbled himfelf to honour our nature, we should humble ourselves to honor his

name.