As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low.

Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were in jest.

Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul.

Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for my soul, that is lost and cast away forever. I took little.care and thought about it.

Christ comes with kingly power, to rescue sinners, as a prey from the mouth of the terrible one.

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.

[Providences] often puzzle and entangle our thoughts, but bring them to the Word, and your duty will be quickly manifested. "Until I went into the sanctuary of God, then understood I their end" (Ps. 73:17). And not only their end, but his own duty, to be quiet in an afflicted condition and not envy their prosperity.