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

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

The knowledge of Christ is profound and large. All other sciences are but shadows; this is a boundless, bottomless ocean. Though something of Christ be unfolded in one age, and something in another, yet eternity itself cannot full unfold him.

It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a wise Spirit sitting in all the wheels of motion, and governing the most eccentric creatures and their most pernicious designs to blessed and happy issues.

Observed duties maintain our credit; but secret duties maintain our life.

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.

Providence so orders the case, that faith and prayer come between our wants and supplies, and the goodness of God may be the more magnified in our eyes thereby.