so that now you ought rather to forgive, and comfort him, for fear he should be overwhelm'd by an excess of sorrow.

who also hath enabled me to be a minister of the new covenant, not of the literal sense, but of the spiritual meaning: it is the letter that denounces death, but the spirit gives life.

for the light affliction, which I at present suffer, will be infinitely over-ballanced by an eternal weight of glory;

therefore, if any man be a christian, he is in a new creation: the old state of things is chang'd to one entirely new.

for he hath made him who knew no sin to be a sin-offering for us, that we might be justified by God thro' him.

I will be a father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."

that as your present sufficiency supplies their wants, their sufficiency may supply your occasions another way: and thus there will be an equality.

but this I do, and shall do, to make them drop their hire, who are so bent upon hire: and then indeed they will be as they pretend to be, like me.

now I pray God that I may not punish you; not that I may show you my proofs to your cost, but that by your acting honestly, I may be as if I had no proofs: