In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.

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.

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

But hereof be assured, that all is not lawful nor just that is statute by civil laws; neither yet is everything sin before God, which ungodly persons allege to be treason.

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

How good we are as preachers depends - not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily - on how good we are as men.

The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance.