A Saint Indeed / Keeping the Heart

Heart-work is hard work indeed. To shuffle over religious duties with a loose and heedless spirit, will cost no great pains; but to set thyself before the Lord, and tie up thy loose and vain thoughts to a constant and se…

Wicked men are sometimes like mad horses, they would stamp the people of God under their feet, but that the bridle of providence is in their lips. A lion at liberty is terrible to meet; but who is afraid of a lion in the…

Even a gracious heart is like a musical instrument, which though it be never so exactly tuned, a small matter brings it out of tune again; yea, put it aside but a little while and it will need setting again before anothe…