Chaff and Wheat Contrasted

“‘Light chaff is blown tip and dow7i by every wind, when solid grain hitcheth in, and resteth on the floor where it is Constancy is one of the evidences of worth. Those who change their religion generally need to be changed by their religion before they will have any religion worth the having. Fickle professors are ready to be the prey of every new teacher; his breath is enough to blow them according to his pleasure. They are everything by turns, and nothing long. Depend upon it, he knows nothing of the preciousness of truth, who is ready to stand and deliver to every footpad of heresy who challenges him: he who has about him doctrines which he esteems to be a treasure will fight for them, and send the robber to the rightabouts.

We know one of whom we usually ask, whenever we see him,” What are you now?’ Yet are there some good points about him, and he has a mind open to conviction, too open a great deal to be a fit casket for the jewels of truth. We have seen a child in a field of flowers, filling its little hand eagerly, and then dropping its posy, not for better but for other flowers. Many professors are such children.

A heart which is fickle in its love is not likely to make a marriage with the truth. Lord, fix my heart in thy truth, and never let it be removed.