For the infinite glorious Creator of all things, to become a creature, is a mystery exceeding all human understanding.

We must not think that faith itself is the soul's rest; it is only the means of it. We cannot find rest in any work or duty of our own, but we may find it in Christ, whom faith apprehends for justification and salvation.

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

Grace makes the promise and providence the payment.

Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him.

It is a common thing for men to benumb their own arms, and make them as dead and useless by leaning too much upon them: so it is in a moral as well as a natural way: all the prudence and pains in the world avail nothing without God. So saith the Psalmist, in Psalm cxxvii. 2.

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