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

All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome.

But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.

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

Nothing is more generally known than the duties which belong to christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practised?

Numberless marks does man bear in his soul, that he is fallen and estranged from God; but nothing gives a greater proof thereof, than that backwardness, which every one finds within himself, to the duty of praise and thanksgiving.

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.