Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed.

It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart.

The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not consecrated priests to make sacrifice, but servants to distribute the sacred feast.

The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life.

The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.