The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living words of God were heard.

If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.

The cross of Christ only triumphs in the breast of believers over the devil and the flesh, sin and sinners, when their eyes are directed to the power of His Resurrection.

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.

We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.

We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.

They babble and talk absurdly who, in the place of God's providence, substitute bare permission - as if God sat in a watchtower awaiting chance events , and his judgments thus depended upon human will.