The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.

Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.

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.

Sincerity carries the soul in all simplicity to open its heart to God.

The life blood streaming thro' my heart, Or my more dear immortal part, Is not more fondly dear.

There hath not one tear dropped from thy tender eye against thy lusts, the love of this world, or for more communion with Jesus Christ, but as it is now in the bottle of God.

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.