Christ and his benefits go inseparably and undividedly... Many would willingly receive his privileges, who will not receive his person; but it cannot be; if we will have one, we must take the other too: Yea, we must accept his person first, and then his benefits: as it is in the marriage covenant, so it is here.

Whatever be the ground of one's distress, it should drive him to, not from God.

O my soul, I am now addressing myself to the greatest work that ever a creature was employed about - I am going into the solemn presence of God about business of everlasting importance!

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).

Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.

One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.

Christ's resurrection is the ground-work of our hope. And the new birth is our title or evidence of our interest in it.