It is better to be as low as hell with a promise, than in Paradise without one.

Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us.

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!

When the world smiles upon us, and we have got a warm nest, how do we prophesy of rest and peace in those acquisitions, thinking with good Baruch, great things for ourselves, but Providence by a particular or general calamity overturns our plans (Jer. 45:4,5), and all this to turn our hearts from the creature to God.

The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated.

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

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.