Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarecely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded by supplication.

I have a great need for Christ: I have a great Christ for my need.

The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.

Let us measure ourselves by our Master, and not by our fellow-servants : then pride will be impossible.

A man is not saved against his will, but he is made willing by the operation of the Holy Ghost. A mighty grace which he does not wish to resist enters into the man, disarms him, makes a new creature of him, and he is saved.

Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace.

Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent.