But then also, the frequent disappointment of such projects and designs of gain, honour, and pleasure, and the extreme Unanswerableness of these to the desires and hopes of the soul, even when attained, must needs breed infinitely more anxiety and vexation in the spirit, than the hope of them could give of satisfaction, yea the more the expectation was, it cannot choose but the greater shame and confusion must be.
"The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning"
Hugh Binning