Selections from the works of bishop Hall Author:Joseph Hall Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SELECT THOUGHTS. 1.—Scripture the only true Guide. The Scripture is the sun: the church is the clock, whose hand points us to, and whose sound tells us the... more » hour of the day. The sun we know to be sure, and regularly constant in his motion. The clock may go too fast or too slow. We are wont to look at and listen to the clock to know the time of the day; but where we find the variation sensible, to believe the sun against the clock, not the clock against the sun. As, then, we would condemn him of much folly, that should profess to trust the clock rather than the sun; so we cannot but justly tax the miscredulity of those who will rather trust to the church than to the Scripture.—Vol. vi. f. 246. 2.—Christ alone can cleanse the Soul. None but the Lord Jesus Christ can cover the soul, that it may not appear unrighteous; or cleanse the soul, that it may not be unrighteous : and cleansed it must be ere the Lord Jesus can be put on.— Vol. vi. p. 252. 3.—Repentance necessary to Peace with God. O Lord, set me at war with myself, that I may be at peace with thee ! —Vol. vi. p. 256- 4.—Afflictions beneficial. How profitable and beneficial a thing is affliction, especially to some dispositions ! It is a rare soul that can be kept in any constant order without these smarting remedies. I confess mine cannot; how wild had I run, if the rod had not been over me! Every man can say he thanks God for ease. For me, I bless God for my troubles.—Vol. vi. p. 258. 5.—Few love Heaven rightly. Heaven hath many tongues that talk of it; more eyes to behold it; but few hearts that rightly affect it.— Vol. vi. p. 260. 6.—Faith and Infidelity. Infidelity and faith look both through the same perspective glass; but at contrary ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the g...« less