"Courteous reader, 'tis said of scripture that it is deep enough for an elephant to swim in, and yet shallow enough for a lamb to wade through."

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“They spare the rod, and spoyle the child.”

“All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.”

“Sin is anti-will to God's will; it sets itself to oppose preaching, prayer, and all the institutions of God.”

“What is sin but a departure from God? And what is the doom of sinners but departure from God? Depart from us is the cry of sinners to God. Depart from me will be the cry of God to sinners.”

“Confession of sin and repentance gives glory to God and sin endeavors to obstruct and hinder this.”

“One of the first evidences of man's sinfulness and misery by it, was that he could not endure, but hid himself from the voice and face of God .”

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