while he stands, and his recovery if he falls, are both of God.
Wherefore, if God leaves him a little, the next gap he finds, away
he is gone again: "My people," says God, "are bent to backsliding
from me."

Here is grace. So many times as the soul backslides, so many times
God brings him back again--I mean the soul that must be saved by
grace; he renews his pardons and multiplies them. Yea, for aught I
know, there are some saints, and they not long-lived either, that
must receive, before they enter into life, millions of pardons from
God for these; and every pardon is an act of grace, through the
redemption that is in Christ's blood.

The first step to the cure of a wounded conscience is for thee to
know the grace of God, especially the grace of God as to
justification.

Grace can pardon our ungodliness and justify us with Christ's
righteousness; it can put the Spirit of Jesus Christ within us; it
can help us when we are down; it can heal us when we are wounded; it
can multiply pardons, as we through frailty multiply transgressions.

GRACE ABUSED.

A self-righteous man, a man of the law, takes grace and mercy for
his greatest enemy.

The best of things that are of this world are some way hurtful.
Honey is hurtful, wine is hurtful, silver and gold are hurtful; but
grace is not hurtful. Never did man yet catch harm by the enjoyment