It was first the awful state of the land that was pressed upon me. I saw the blindness and infatuation of the people to be very great. I felt the cry of Liberty just to...

Now there is distress of nations, with perplexity, the seas and the waves roaring, men’s hearts failing them for fear.

I saw the error to be, that men think that it will be something seen by the natural eye; but ’tis spiritual discernment that is needed, the eye of God in his people.

O it is not known what the sign of the Son of man is; the people of God think they are waiting, but they know not what it is.

There are low views of God’s holiness, and a ceasing to condemn sin in the flesh, and a looking from him who humbled himself, and made himself of no reputation.

A fiery trial which is to try us.

The Spirit must and will be poured out on the church, that she may be purified and filled with God – and just in proportion as the Spirit of God works, so will he –...