If we would keep the creature in its place, we must take God
as our portion.
Being an heir of glory I would, by God's grace, rather break
stones on the road for Him than be put to the drudgery of ruling
an empire.
Spiritual prosperity is always attended with strong temptation
to the _high thought_, the _lofty imagination_.
The worst temptations are those which so pamper and please the
flesh that they do not vex us at all: they are perilous by their
deceitfulness.
The outward falls of the children of God always bespeak the foregoing
state of the heart.
The wearing of apparel is a special mark of our fall and shame.
How unseemly then is pride of dress! Does the convict glory in
the convict's coat?