"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."-St. Matthew.

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E cannot keep our bodies long here, they are corruptible bodies, and will tumble into dust: we must part with them for awhile, and if ever we expect and desire a happy meeting again, we must use them with modesty and reverence now.—Sherlock.

If we keep God's word, God's word will keep us from everything really hurtful.-Henry.

There are many who desire to die the death of the righteous, but do not endeavour to live the life of the righteous; gladly would they have their end like theirs, but not their way. They would be saints in heaven, but not saints on earth.-Henry.

Those whom the grace of God has dignified ought not to debase themselves. Let God's people be of God's

mind.-Henry.

The worse others are, the better we should be.—Henry.

As the sun is reflected in a spring when it is clear and limpid, so God is reflected in the soul of man when it is pure and spiritual.

I wish for no other heaven on this side of the last sea I must cross than this service of Christ, to make my blackness beauty; my deadness, life; my guiltiness, sanctification. I long much for that day when I shall be holy. Oh, what spots are yet unwashed !—Rutherford.

"The path of the just is as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day."-Solomon.

F we make religion our business, God will make it our blessedness.-Henry.

Make God the first and last of all thy actions; so begin that thou mayest have Him in the end; otherwise I doubt whether it had not been better that thou hadst never Begun.-Henshaw.

People speak against religion because it speaks against them.-Henry.

Religion will always make the bitter waters of Marah wholesome and palatable, but we must not think it will continually turn water into wine because it once did.Warburton.

Men never begin to be wise till they begin to be religious; and they then leave off to be wise when they leave off doing good.-Hery.

The religion of Christ reaches and changes the heart, which no other religion does.-Howells.

There is not only peace in the end of religion, but peace in the way.-Henry.

"Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace." Are there no bitters in true religion? Doubtless there are; but they spring not from religion, but from self.-Howells.

Many rely upon a comparative righteousness, but alas! God will not judge thee by comparing thee with other men, but with His law.-Henry.

Now you say, alas! Christianity is hard. I grant it; but gainful and happy. I contemn the difficulty when I respect the advantage. The greatest labours that have answerable requitals are less than the least that have no regard. Believe me, when I look to the reward, I would not have the work easier. It is a good Master whom we serve, who not only pays, but gives, not after the proportion of our earnings, but of His own mercy.-Bishop Hall.

The pious man and the atheist always talk of religion; the one speaks of what he loves and the other of what he fears.-Montesquieu.

To reject the gospel because bad men pervert it, and weak men deform it and quarrel about it, and bigoted men look sour on others and curse them, because they do not

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agree in every tittle among themselves, displays the same folly as if a person should cut down a tree bearing abundance of delicious fruit, and furnishing a refreshing shade, because caterpillars disfigured the leaves and spiders made their webs among the branches.-Bogue.

Internal conformity unto the habitual grace and holiness of Christ is the fundamental design of a Christian life.-Owen.

Religion is not confined to devotional exercises, but rather consists in doing all we are called and qualified to do, with a single eye to God's glory and will, from a grateful sense of His love and mercy to us. This is the alchemy which turns everything into gold and stamps a value upon common actions.-J. Newton.

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"They shall not leave in thee one stone upon another, because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation."-St. Luke.

HAT which we have long uninterruptedly enjoyed we

personal comforts, ease, health, faculties, and limbs, have been continued, how seldom do we offer up praises and thanksgivings for the same! Thus it is with our national favours. Annual returns of fruitful harvests, freedom from tremendous judgments, and peace and liberty, do not call forth, in a suitable manner, our devout acknowledgments. And thus, alas! it is also with our spiritual blessings. The free use of the Holy Scriptures, the faithful