I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

Surely in Judas' betrayal it will be no more right, because God both willed that his Son be delivered up, and delivered him up to death, to ascribe the guilt of the crime to God than to transfer the credit for redemption to Judas.

Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority.

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

Peace and friendship are an amiable thing among men. They be so indeed, and we ought to seek them to the uttermost of our power. But yet for all that, we must set such store by God's truth, that if all the world should be set on fire for the maintenance thereof, we should not stick at it.

men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success

But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.