But exhortations must prevail with their own proper weight, not by the passion of the speaker. - Jeremy Taylor

The sacraments and ceremonies of the gospel operate not without the concurrent actions and moral influences of the suscipient.

The thing framed says that nothing framed it; the tongue never made itself to speak, and yet talks against him that did; saying that which is made, is, and that which made it, is not. But this folly is infinite as hell, as much without light or bound as the chaos or the primitive nothing.

All that a sick and dying man can do, is but to exercise those virtues which he before acquired, and to perfect that repentance, which was begun more early.