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

What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves!

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

That which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort.

Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.

It would much conduce to the settlement of your hearts, to consider, That by fretting and discontent, you do yourselves more injury thart till the afsltilions you lie under could do; your own discontent is that which arms your troubles with a sting; it is you that make your burden heavy, by struggling under it. Could you but lie quiet under the hand of God, your condition would be much easier and sweeter than it is.

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