There is a warning here for true pilgrims. Beware of the talker, but also be careful not to judge too quickly those whom God has blessed with both genuine grace and a fluency to speak of divine mercy in ways more eloquent than others. The proof is in the life-not a perfect life, but a life that both delights in divine truth and magnifies God, the only giver of the sovereign grace that always produces the truly fruitful, fragrant life.

Here is the life of prayer, when in or with the Spirit, a man being made sensible of sin, and how to come to the Lord for mercy; he comes, I say, in the strength of the Spirit, and crieth Father. That one word spoken in faith is better than a thousand prayers, as men call them, written and read, in a formal, cold, lukewarm way.

To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted.

Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.

Be of good cheer, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole.

Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.

Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.