The Spirit must therefore first take hold of us before we can live in Christ, and when he doth so, then we are enabled to exert that vital act of faith, whereby we receive Christ.

Jesus, our head, is already in heaven; and if the head be above water, the body cannot drown.

The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness.

Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.

Where there is no want, there is usually much wantonness.

What, at peace with the Father and at war with the children? It cannot be.

When the world smiles upon us, and we have got a warm nest, how do we prophesy of rest and peace in those acquisitions, thinking with good Baruch, great things for ourselves, but Providence by a particular or general calamity overturns our plans (Jer. 45:4,5), and all this to turn our hearts from the creature to God.