Ouranos kai tartaros= heaven and hell epitomized. The true Christian characterized. As also an…

You have a large room in the hearts of many that are holy: But alas Sir, the best mans confidence of me would prove but a bad evidence for heaven: He is not approved whom man commendeth, ⟨image 4⟩but whom the Lord commendeth.

The great affection which you bear to the souls of the people, amongst whom you were born, is worthy of imitation: And so is your care and cost in scattering some practical home-treatises in several families (whereby souls may be converted, and wherein you may have comfort at the day of Christ) for soul-charity is the soul of charity; but the best charity begins at home, though it never ends there; your main business lieth within your own doors, to make sure that good work within you, which shall be perfected hereafter.

The great affection which you bear to the souls of the people, amongst whom you were born, is worthy of imitation: And so is your care and cost in scattering some practical home-treatises in several families (whereby souls may be converted, and wherein you may have comfort at the day of Christ) for soul-charity is the soul of charity; but the best charity begins at home, though it never ends there; your main business lyeth within your own doors, to make sure that good work within you, which shall be perfected hereafter.

The ordinary security which most men trust to, will not serve when they come in the other life, to lay their claims, and show their deeds for the inheritance of the Saints in light. Many flaws will then be found in their evidences, which now through their wilful blindness they neither see nor fear.¹ He had need to have armour of proof that would enter the list with his enemy Death, and not be foiled. The heart not ballasted with renewing grace, may hold out in the calm of life, and shallows of time; but when it meets with the storm of death, and launcheth into the Ocean of eternity, it suffereth a desperate and everlasting shipwreck. The