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

The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness.

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.

Look around in the world, and you may see some in every place who are objects of pity, bereaved by sad accidents of all the comforts of life, while in the meantime Providence has tenderly preserved you.

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

You may look upon some providences once and again, and see little or nothing in them, but look "seven times," that is, meditate often upon them, and you will see their increasing glory, like that increasing cloud (1 Kings 18:44).

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