The whole comes to this, that Christ, when he produces faith in us by the agency of his Spirit, at the same time ingrafts us into his body, that we may become partakers of all spiritual blessings.

If we are given gold, would we not test it to determine it's value? If we doubted its genuineness - we would test it by fire...and so God with us.

If the gospel be not preached, Jesus Christ is, as it were, buried.

... let everyone regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses.

The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself.

Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.

In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.