He hath given me rest by His sorrow, and life by His death.

If you do not put a difference between justification wrought by the Man Christ without, and sanctification wrought by the Spirit of Christ within, you are not able to divide the word aright; but contrariwise, you corrupt the word of God.

Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth.

It could be a sign of pride in your life if a word of reproof or admonition is not able to be received with the same grace, whether it be given by the poorest of saints or the most educated person.

I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.

It is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled.

Look how fears have presented themselves, so have supports and encouragements; yea, when I have started, even as it were at nothing else but my shadow, yet God, as being very tender of me, hath suffered me to be molested, but would with one Scripture or another, strengthen me against all; insomuch that I have often said, Were it awful, I could pray for greater trouble, for the greater comfort's sake.