No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul.

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!

A hot iron, though blunt, will pierce sooner than a cold one, though sharper.

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.

We acknowledge no righteousness but what the obedience and satisfaction of Christ yields us. His blood, not our faith; his satisfaction, not our believing it, is the matter of our justification before God.

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.

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