People want to recommend themselves to God by their sincerity; they think, 'If we do all we can, if we are but sincere, Jesus Christ will have mercy on us.' But pray what is there in our sincerity to recommend us to God? ... therefore, if you depend on your sincerity for your salvation, your sincerity will damn you.

The Lord Jesus sits in heaven, ruling over all, and causing all things to work for his children's good.

Man is nothing; he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him" and "you dishonour God by denying election. You plainly make salvation depend, not on God's 'free grace' but on Man's 'free will.'

Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.

The sinner can no more raise himself from the deadness of sin than Lazarus, who had been dead four days, until Jesus came.

The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by their denying, prove it.

Would ministers preach for eternity! They would then act the part of true Christian orators, and not only calmly and cooly inform the understanding, but, by persuasive, pathetic address, endeavour to move the affections and warm the heart.