David McRoberts

“ Now, my dear Wife, I have set life and death both before you, and if you neglect it, it will be endless, endless, endless misery!—O then be earnest with god, whilst you are in the body; and get the children brought up in the fear of god. Do not let your eyes pity them, so as to with-hold correction when needful; and pray that god, for Christ sake, may bless your endeavours, that it may tend to his glory, and your and their good. O remember time is passing away, and eternity is approaching.——One hour spent in conversation with god, is better than all the perishing world. ”

“ The best duty that ever you did or can do, is but your duty, and never can make amends for your sins; so, if ever you be saved you must depend on the blood and righteousness of Christ for all. Oh! my dear, fly front any doctrine that would recommend you on works to attain salvation. Christ is inviting you without money and without price. The door of mercy is yet open; but be assured that there is no mercy after death for those that die unconverted. I have no doubt but Satan, the world, and the treacherous heart, will have many excuses; but go on in the free grace of god, through Jesus Christ ”

“ It is no matter how the lamp of this life goes out, if it be lighted again by the immortal beams of Christ’s righteousness.—It is better that my spirit be carried from the scaffold by Angels, than from a bed of down, to be dragged to where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. ”