There can be but one will the master in our salvation, but that shall never be the will of man, but of God; therefore man must be saved by grace.

Though the world disregard the society of God's children now, yet there is a time coming in which they would be glad to have the least company with them.

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

A saint abroad, and a devil at home.

Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.

The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.

Faith is a fruit, work, or gift of the Spirit of God, whereby a poor soul is enabled through the mighty operation of God, in a sense of its sins and wretched estate to lay hold on the righteousness, blood, death, resurrection, ascension, intercession, and coming again of the Son of God which was crucified without the gates of Jerusalem, for eternal life.