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.

It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone.

The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.

Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.

Life is not found in commandments or declarations of penalties, but in the promise of mercy and only in a gratuitous promise.

True it is, that he who has taken off his affection from the goods of this world has already sold all, and has made himself poor, so far as depends upon himself; but the fruit and the proof of this spiritual poverty are, patiently to endure the loss of worldly goods, and without any regret, when it pleases our heavenly Father that we should be despoiled of them.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.