The foundation of authority is based upon the consent of the people.
Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest.
I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good.
Look whether it be indifferently, as well for sins secret as open, what you find to be your best cordials to comfort you, whether God's Word, or natural means.
When the father is going on in his journey, if the child will not goe on, but stands gaping upon vanity, and when the father calls, he comes not, the onely way is this: the father steps aside behind a bush, and then the child runs and cries, and if he gets his father againe, he forsakes all his trifles, and walkes on more faster and more cheerefully with his father than ever.
