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.

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

Breathes there a man, whose judgment clear Can others teach their course to steer, Yet run himself life's mad career Wild as the wave?

But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.

At the day of Doom men shall be judged according to their fruits. It will not be said then, did you believe? But, were you doers or talkers only?