One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.

Look around in the world, and you may see some in every place who are objects of pity, bereaved by sad accidents of all the comforts of life, while in the meantime Providence has tenderly preserved you.

I think it is not very difficult to discern by the duties and converses of Christians, what frames their spirits are under. Take a Christian in a good frame, and how serious, heavenly, and profitable, will his converses and duties be! what a lovely companion is he during the continuance of it!

Jesus Christ is in every way sufficient to the vast desires of the soul.

Observed duties maintain our credit; but secret duties maintain our life.

Look to it, my dear friends, that none of you be found Christless at your appearance before him. Those that continue Christless now, will be left speechless then. God forbid that you that have heard so much of Christ, and you that have professed so much of Christ, should at last fall into a worse condition than those that never heard the name of Christ.

Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had you been left to your own option.