A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctance than he took the first step while his conscience was yet vigilant and tender.

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections.

There is a variety in tempers of good men.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidence whatever, even that of a messenger sent express from the other world.

Nothing can be reckoned good or bad to us in this life, any further than it indisposes us for the enjoyment of another.