All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that is hard, difficult, laborious and full of countless griefs.

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.

I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.

God does not bestow his spirit on his people in order to set aside the use of his word, but rather to render it fruitful.

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.

Again I ask whence it happened that the fall of Adam involved, without remedy, in eternal death so many nations, together with their infant children, except because it so seemed good to God? A decree horrible, I confess, and yet true.