For unto Him, who is everywhere we come by love, not by sailing. Thou shalt not sink, but shalt be borne upon the Wood. But wonderful it is, that when Christ Crucified is preached, two hear, one despiseth, the other ascendeth. For even they who are already walking in this way of righteousness, if they attribute it to themselves, and to their own strength, perish out of it. Low grounds are filled, high grounds are dried up.
Grace is rain.
Be not high-minded, but fear. I shall never be moved. O Lord, in Thy favour Thou gavest strength to my beauty. I should seek, to Whom attribute what I had received, to Whom I ought to render thanks, to Whom I should run in my thirst, Whereby be filled, and with Whom keep that whereby I should be filled. Serve ye the Lord in fear, and rejoice unto Him with trembling.