but the grace, and spirit, and faith of the Lord Jesus.

I speak not this to lessen my wickedness; I would not for all the
world but be placed by mine own conscience in the very front of the
biggest sinners, that I might be one of the first that are beckoned
by the gracious hand of Jesus the Saviour, to come to him for mercy.

Well, sinner, thou now speakest like a Christian, but say thus in a
strong spirit in the hour of temptation, and then thou wilt, to thy
commendation and comfort, quit thyself well.

This improving of Christ in dark hours, is the life, though the
hardest part of our Christianity. We should neither stop at
darkness, nor at the raging of our lusts, but go on in a way of
venturing and casting the whole of our affairs for the next world at
the foot of Jesus Christ. This is the way to make the darkness
light, and also to allay the raging of our corruption.

The first time the Passover was eaten, was in the night; and when
Israel took courage to go forward, though the sea stood in their way
like a devouring gulf, and the host of the Egyptians follow them at
the heels; yet the sea gives place, and their enemies were as still
as a stone till they were gone over; Exod. xii. 8; chap. xiv. 13, 14,
21, 22; chap. xv. 16.

There is nothing like faith to help at a pinch; faith dissolves
doubts as the sun drives away the mists. And that you may not be put
out, know your time, as I said, of believing it always. There are
times when some graces may be out of use, but there is no time
wherein faith can be said to be so. Wherefore faith must be always