The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.

Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.

If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?