Many that are very remiss in their duty, if they were but faithfully told of it, would reform and do better.-Henry.

He who has provoked the shaft of wit cannot complain that he smarts from it.-Johnson.

R

ESOLVED and agreed, that God's will ought to determine mine, and not mine pretend to determine the will of God.-Gossner.

When I suffer most, I will comfort myself with thinking that I might, and that many do, suffer more; and that all I can suffer is not only much less than I deserve, but ordained in mercy as the means of my eternal happiness. -Adam.

Whether God comes to His children with a rod or a crown, if He come Himself with it, it is well.-Rutherford.

God never smites without a NEED BE, and when He smites with one hand, He soothes with the other.McCheyne.

When I am well, I think I could die contentedly. When I am sick, I am impatient to be well again.-Adam

Christ is a refiner's fire, Matt. iii. We could like well enough to come and warm ourselves at this fire, but the business depends upon being thrown into it.-Adam.

Why dost Thou hide thy face? None can see my face and live.

Haply, Thou wilt say,

Ah, Lord, let me die,

that I may see Thee; let me see Thee, that I may die. I

would not live, but die. death; that I may live Quarles.

That I may see Christ, I desire with Christ, I despise life.

The poorest circumstances in life, with a religious spirit of resignation and an honest and upright heart, are far better than the greatest abundance and highest honours without them; for these cannot give that peace of mind which the other can never want.-Townson.

What unthankfulness is it to forget our consolations, and to look upon matters of grievance; to think so much upon two or three crosses as to forget a hundred blessings!-Sibbes.

Suppose thyself in as great sadness as ever did load thy spirit, wouldst thou not bear it nobly and cheerfully if thou wast sure that within a certain space some excellent fortune would relieve thee, and enrich thee, and recompense thee, so as to overflow all thy hopes, and desires, and capacities? Now, then, when a sadness lies heavy upon thee, remember that thou art a Christian,

designed to the inheritance of Jesus. Or, have they taken all from me? What now? Let me look about me. They have left me the sun and the moon, fire and water, a loving wife, and many friends to pity me, and some to relieve me; and I can still discourse; and, unless I list, they have not taken away my merry countenance, and my cheerful spirit, and a good conscience; they still have left me the providence of God, and all the promises of the gospel, and my religion, and my hopes of heaven, and my charity to them too; and still I sleep and digest, I eat and drink, I read and meditate; I can walk in my neighbours' pleasant fields, and see the varieties of natural beauties, and delight in all that in which God delights, that is, in virtue and wisdom, in the whole creation, and in God Himself. And he that hath so many causes of joy, and so great, is very much in love with sorrow and peevishness, who loses all these pleasures, and chooses to sit down upon his little handful of thorns. Jeremy Taylor.

Grace teaches us in the midst of life's greatest comforts to be willing to die, and in the midst of its greatest crosses to be willing to live.-Henry.

Let grace make us willing to part with life whenever God calls; for it may so happen that even sense may make us desirous to part with it before He calls.-Henry.

"Be sure your sin will find you out."-Numbers.

HOSE will quickly hear their doom that cannot bear to hear their duty.—Henry.

RICHES.

"As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.-Jeremiah.

ARTHLY riches are full of poverty.-Augustine.

He that hath but one foot of land in Mount Zion is richer than he that holds a sceptre over the round globe. -Lee.

It is seldom that the sparkling diamond of a great estate is set in the gold ring of a gracious heart. A man may be great with Saul, and graceless; rich with Dives, and miserable. The richest are oftentimes the poorest, and the poorest are oftentimes the richest. Oh, how many threadbare souls may there be found under silken coats and purple robes! They who live most downward, die most upward.-Dyer.

The churchyard is the market-place where the things of this world are duly rated.-Baxter.

Let the world arop down boundless revenues, crowns, and sceptres: a poor contemptible Christian comes and lays down one God against all these, and beggars them. -Hopkins.