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Not my most successful beach reading, but not terrible either

"What drives our behaviour (in reading the Bible) is not just what we think, but ultimately what we love. There is a transcendent glory in the Scriptures and whoever discerns it cannot miss to hug and embrace them, not just understanding God's word, but also in the growth of your love for the God of the word.

Consider how it has been the way of God's people to be much addicted to and conversant in the Scriptures."

"The instruments employed by providence for you are of a special consideration, and the finger of God is clearly seen by us when we pursue that meditation. For sometimes great mercies shall be conveyed to us by very improbable means, and more probable ones laid aside. A stranger shall be stirred up to do something for you which your near and natural relations had no power or will to do for you." - John Flavel

Waste not your precious time in vanity. Do not multiply the sin of idle words. Oh what a load lies on many a soul that does not feel the guilt of these two sins, loss of time and idle words...

if you would live together as the heirs of heaven and provoke one another to the love of God and holy duty and delightfully talk of the Word of God and the life to come, what blessings might you be to one another.

(Quotes) "But when I give much of my attention to myself and condition so much, and little of my attention to his service, glory, and honour, then no wonder that I am so much discouraged. Therefore, labour more and more to mortify self-love. In this way you shall never be discouraged, whatever your condition be."