We are not distinguished from brutes by our senses, but by our understanding.

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

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

It is a common thing for men to benumb their own arms, and make them as dead and useless by leaning too much upon them: so it is in a moral as well as a natural way: all the prudence and pains in the world avail nothing without God. So saith the Psalmist, in Psalm cxxvii. 2.

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

Sometimes God makes use of instruments for good to His people, who designed nothing but evil and mischief to them. Thus Joseph's brethren were instrumental to his advancement in that very thing in which they designed his ruin (Gen. 50:20).

Scripture knows no other way to glory, but Christ put on and applied by faith.