-What is said here of Pharaoh affords a most solemn illustration of what we read of in Proverbs 21-1- -The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water- He turneth it whithersoever He will-. The hardening of Pharaoh's heart is not one whit more appalling than what we read of it Revelation 17-17- -For God hath put in their hearts to fulfill His will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the Beast-. Here we find ten kings in league with the Antichrist, the Man of Sin, and that it is God Himself who puts it into their hearts to give their kingdom unto him. Again we say that such things are not to he philosophized about. Nor are we to call into question the righteousness and holiness of God's ways. Scripture plainly tells us that His ways are -past finding out- -Rom. 11-33-. Let us then tremble before Him, and if in marvelous grace He has softened our hearts let us magnify His sovereign mercy unceasingly.

Is it nothing to us that innumerable souls, who yet continue to make an outward profession of the name of Christ, have so degenerated from the mystery, holiness, and worship of the gospel, as to provoke the holy God to give them up for so many generations unto the most woeful bondage and slavery that ever any of the children of men were cast under from the foundation of the world, without the least hopes or appearance of relief-

This narration includes the preface and amazing observations of Jonathan Edwards.

Commentary on Hebrews Six, the effects of the word and Spirit upon the hypocrite short of salvation.

35 years ago in December, I narrated this for the 1st time. I have narrated it at least every two years since. And yet, 35 years later, it affects this narrator with new dread and wonder as if I had never narrated it before. -One said of it- - I think a person of moral sensibility , alone at midnight, reading that awful discourse, would well-nigh go crazy. He would hear the judgment trump, and see the advancing heaven , and the day of doom would begin to mantle him with its shroud.- Henry C Fish History of Pulpit Eloquence - 1850

The Atheist is the fool pre-eminently, and a fool universally. He would not deny God if he were not a fool by nature, and having denied God it is no marvel that he becomes a fool in practice. Sin is always folly, and as it is the height of sin to attack the very existence of the Most High, so it is also the greatest imaginable folly. To say there is no God is to belie the plainest evidence, which is obstinacy- to oppose the common consent of mankind, which is stupidity- to stifle consciousness, which is madness.-The Treasury of David-

I would exhort those who have entertained a hope of their being true converts - and who since their supposed conversion have left off the duty of secret prayer, and ordinarily allow themselves in the omission of it - to throw away their hope. If you have left off calling upon God, it is time for you to leave off hoping and flattering yourselves with an imagination that you are the children of God.

From The Treasury of David. -My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me-- This was the startling cry of Golgotha- Eloi, Eloi, lama sabacthani. The Jews mocked, but the angels adored when Jesus cried this exceeding bitter cry. Nailed to the tree we behold our great Redeemer in extremities, and what see we- Having ears to hear let us hear, and having eyes to see let us see- Let us gaze with holy wonder, and mark the flashes of light amid the awful darkness of that midday-midnight.

From -Treatise on the Soul of Man- -This stillness of conscience, upon the brink of damnation, proceeds from the strong delusions of Satan, blinding their eyes, and feeding their false hopes- He removes the evil day at many years imaginary distance from them, and interposes many a fair day between them and it, and in that interposed season, time enough to prepare for it- without such an arti-ce as this, his house would be in an uproar, but this keeps all in peace, Luke 11-21-

On November ninth they fell in with a part of the land called Cape Cod, at which they were not a little joyful. After some deliberation among themselves and with the captain, they tacked about and resolved to stand for the southward, the wind and weather being fair, to find some place near Hudson's River for their habitation.