For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.

All that the Father giveth me SHALL COME... Here, therefore, the Lord Jesus positively determineth to put forth such a sufficiency of all grace as shall effectually perform this promise. They shall come; that is, he will CAUSE them to come, by infusing of an effectual blessing into all the means that shall be used to that end.

Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.

As your faith is, such your hope will be. Hope is never ill when faith is well, nor strong if faith be weak.

It is not the mouth that is the main thing to be looked at in prayer, but whether the heart is so full of affection and earnestness in prayer with God, that it is impossible to express their sense and desire; for then a man desires indeed, when his desires are so strong, many, and mighty, that all the words, tears, and groans that can come from the heart, cannot utter them.

Without the Spirit man is so infirm that he cannot, with all other means whatsoever, be enabled to think one right saving thought of God, of Christ, or of his blessed things.

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