Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us.

Afflictions have the same use and end to our souls, that frosty weather hath upon those clothes that are laid and bleaching, they alter the hue and make them white.

For the infinite glorious Creator of all things, to become a creature, is a mystery exceeding all human understanding.

The soul of man, like the bird in the shell, is still growing or ripening in sin or grace, till at last the shell breaks by death, and the soul flies away to the piece it is prepared for, and where it must abide forever.

They that know God will be humble. They that know themselves cannot be proud.

If time be a ring of gold, opportunity is the rich diamond that gives it both its value and glory.

All the tears of a penitent sinner, should he shed as many as there have fallen drops of rain, since the creation, to this day, cannot wash away one sin. The everLasting burnings in hell, cannot purify the flaming conscience, from the least sin.