Fragment on Principles

I wish attention could be roused to this question_ "Have you any principles? and if you have, are
they Divine, and such as will make good for you, if you are consistent with them, a steady
position when all things are shaking round you?"

Clearly they who are walking with God, as did Enoch, can say, "Through grace I have such; for
the great leading circumstance to me is God, who, nearer to me than my own self, never changes
and if I am kept true to Him, when He has overruled things for Himself, the same grace which
keeps me now by steady adherence to Him, who is the same yesterday, today, and forever, will
cause it to appear before all in His own Day to the praise of His own grace."