and mark'd me with his seal, and given me the earnest of the spirit in my heart.

for out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears; not to make you uneasy, but to make you sensible of the overflowing tenderness which I have for you.

you are my epistle, your conversion being writ in. my heart, known and read by all men:

which shows you to be the epistle of Christ, written by my ministration, not with ink, but with the spirit of the living God; not on tables of stone, but on living tables of the heart.

for he saith, " I have heard thee in a favourable time, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee." now this is the favourable time; this is that day of salvation.

O Corinthians, my heart is so full, my tongue cannot be silent:

this I know, that he was snatch'd up into paradise, and heard such secrets as it is not lawful for a man to reveal.