judged. Many get no profit by their labour, because they contend for knowledge rather than for a holy life; and the time shall come when it shall more avail thee to have subdued one lust than to have known all mysteries.— Jeremy Taylor.

Head-knowledge is our own, and can polish only the outside; heart-knowledge is the Spirit's work, and makes all glorious within. Nothing is well done in our spiritual building but what is done with prayer and God's help. Fight and pray. Fly and pray.-Adam.

The study of Jesus Christ is the most noble subject that a soul can spend itself upon.—Flavel.

It is not knowledge, but love, that distinguisheth saints from devils. -Henry.

It is a sad thing to be often eating of the tree of knowledge but never to taste the tree of life.—Anon.

It is the most sweet and comfortable knowledge to be studying Jesus Christ. What is it but to be digging among all the veins and springs of comfort? and the deeper you dig, the more do these springs flow upon you. -Flavel.

A man may be full of the knowledge of God and yet utterly destitute of the grace of God; may receive the truth in the light of it, and yet be a stranger to the love of it.-Henry.

All other knowledge may swell the head sooner than better the heart or reform the life. A man may go silently down to hell by hypocrisy; he may go triumphantly thither by open profaneness; and he may go learnedly down to hell, with great pomp and ostentation, whatever he knows, if he knows not the love of Christ, ruling in him and giving laws to him, and conforming him both to the death and resurrection of his Saviour.— Alsop.

Even those that are well taught have need to be still taught, that they may grow in knowledge.-Henry.

Acquaintance with the things of God and serviceableness to the kingdom of God put true honour upon men, and make them great.-Henry.

The first step to knowledge is, to know that we are ignorant. . . . . We can form no other knowledge of spiritual things, except what God has taught us in His word, and where He stops, we must.-Cecil.

Many have their eyes open that have not their hearts open; are enlightened, but not sanctified; and that knowledge which puffs up men with pride will but serve to light them to hell, whither many go with their eyes open.-Henry.

The due improvement of what we know and own, would help us into the understanding of that which seems difficult and doubtful.-Henry.

JT

LAST DAY.

"The day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.”—St. Paul. T will not be an excuse, but an aggravation of men's doom at the last day, that they who have lived forty or threescore years in the world could yet find no time for heaven.-Henry.

Assuredly in the approaching day of universal judgment, it will not be inquired what we have read, but what we have done; not how eloquently we have spoken, but how holily we have lived.—A'Kempis.

To everything beneath the sun there comes a last day. Let the sanguine then take warning, and the disheartened take courage; for to every joy and to every sorrow, to every hope and every fear, there will come a last day.— Montgomery.

The Christian hath a telescope through which he can behold the glorious appearance of the supreme Judge; the solemn state of His majestic person; the splendid pomp of His magnificent and vastly numerous retinue; the obsequious throng of glorious celestial creatures doing homage to their eternal King; the swift flight of His royal guards, sent forth into the four winds to gather the elect, and covering the face of the heavens with their spreading wings; the universal silent attention of all to that loud sounding trumpet that shakes thé pillars of the world, pierces the inward caverns of the earth, and resounds from every part of the encircling heavens; the

many myriads of joyful expectants arising, changing, putting on glory, taking wing and tending upwards to join themselves to the triumphant heavenly host; the judgment seat, the books opened; the frightful amazed looks of surprised wretches; the equal administration of the final judgment; the adjudication of all to their eternal states; the heavens rolled up as a scroll; the earth, and all things therein, consumed and burnt up.— Howe.

LEVITY.

"As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool."-Ecclesiastes.

WIT

IT is brushwood-judgment is timber. The first makes the brightest flame; but the other gives the most lasting heat.-Hunter.

Oh, go to the house of mourning, and be not unseasonably or immoderately merry in the house of mirth. When you observe what is the end of all men, "the heart will be made better by it." But excess of carnal mirth doth infatuate men, and destroy their wisdom, seriousness, and sobriety. Remember that time is posting on, whether you work or play.—Baxter.

Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged, may expect an old age overrun with follies.-Watts.

They that are past shame are past cure.-Henry.

"Use hospitality one to another without grudging."-St. Peter.

HUNDRED to one is the rate of interest God allows now; and life everlasting in the world to come. -Nevins.

It is an excellent thing when men's religion makes them generous, free-hearted, and open-handed, scorning to do a thing that is paltry and sneaking.-Henry.

The miser's feast is his penance.-Henry.

Many have been beggared by a foolish generosity, but never any by a prudent charity.-Henry.

What is given in alms in a right manner is put out to the best interest upon the best security.-Henry.

They that do good with what they have, shall have more to do more good with.-Henry.