“ As for bigots, and self-sufficient professors, we expect that they will persist in their course be it correct or incorrect; but there doubtless are many, yea, very many in this generation, who would be exceedingly glad to have this question put to rest, that their minds might not be in darkness, nor confusion, and this is what I shall attempt to do—praying my heavenly Father, that he will enlighten my mind by his Spirit, so as to enable me to present the subject as it is in his own bosom. ”

“ Let me premise one thing more, and that is, that whatever the blessings of the gospel were in former days, they are the same in latter days, without variation; that it required the same things to sanctify the human heart at one age of the world, it did at another, and the design of the gospel was to sanctify the heart of man, and make him fit for the enjoyment of God, in eternity ”

“ Others seeing, as they supposed, the errors into which many had fallen, tried to avoid it, by endeavoring to prove that there was no work of the Spirit since the days of the apostles, but that the Spirit is the word and the word is Spirit. Thus they pass along, persuading themselves that all is well with them ”