O Lord Eternal, move and govern my tongue to speak the truth.

I cannot praise the common superfluity which women now use in their apparel.

As touching nature I am a worm of this earth, and yet a subject of this commonwealth; but as touching the office wherein it has pleased God to place me, I am a watchman... For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.

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.

No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man has been so devoutly loved.

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.