Our sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his; so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.

I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up

Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.

The greatness of God, of the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, is that, if rightly considered, which will support the spirits of those of his people that are frighted with the greatness of their adversaries.

Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drouned himsel amang the nappy.

The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end

a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.