Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known.

A man with God is always in the majority.

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been actuated by a species of enthusiasm in their pursuit of it. They have kept one object in view amidst all the vicissitudes of time and torture.

As the world is weary of me so am I of it.

Let no day slip over without some comfort received from the mouth of God.

Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God, to whom we declare all our miseries, whose support and help we implore and desire in our adversities, and whom we laud and praise for our benefits received. So that prayer contains the exposition of our sorrows, the desire of God's defence, and the praising of His magnificent name, as the Psalms of David clearly do teach.