The reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they had dead men preaching to them. O that the Lord may quicken and revive them! How can dead men beget living children?

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

There are many likewise, who go on in a round of duties, a model of performances, that think they shall go to heaven; but if you examine them, though they have a Christ in their heads, they have no Christ in their hearts.

Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again.

True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ, in His Law, and in His people.

Dare, dare, my dear brethren in Christ, to follow the Captain of your salvation, who was made perfect through sufferings

The care of the soul is 'a matter of the highest importance;' beyond any thing which can be brought into comparison with it.