'OUR being placed in a state of discipline throughout this life, for another world, is a providential disposition of things exactly of the same kind as our being placed in a state of discipline during childhood for mature age. Our condition in both respects is uniform and of a piece, and comprehended under one and the same general law of nature.'-Butler's Analogy. Part I. Chap. V.

'The habits of divine, supernatural grace, are not acquireable by human study, or by industry, or by exercise; they are of immediate infusion from heaven; yet they are infused to the end that they may act and exercise themselves in the several conditions and occurrences of a Christian's life, and by that they grow stronger.'-Leighton's Com. on St. Peter. Chap. I. ver. 6.

'Endeavour therefore to derive some instruction or improvement from every thing which you see or hear,-from every thing which occurs in human life,-from every thing within you or without you.'-Watts's Improvement of the Mind. Part I. Chap. III.