To see a man humble under prosperity is one of the greatest rarities in the world.

If you neglect to instruct children in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of wickedness? No; if you will not teach them to pray, he will to curse, swear, and lie; if ground be uncultivated, weeds will spring.

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.

That soul is dead to which the Spirit of Christ is not given in the work of regeneration; and all its works are dead works.

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

No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

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