A. Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the estate wherein they were created, by sinning against God.

2. When the physicians told Theotimus, that except he abstained from drunkenness and licentiousness, he would lose his eyes, his heart was so wedded to his sins, that he answered, 'Then farewell, sweet light.' He had rather lose his eyes than leave his sins. So a man bewitched with sin had rather lose God, Christ, heaven, and his own soul, than part with it.

3. Colonel Gardiner having received a challenge to fight a duel, made the following truly noble and Christian reply: 'I fear sinning, though you know, sir, I do not fear fighting.'