To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a thing most contrary to his revealed will and approved ordinance; and finally, it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice.

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

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

Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.

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

The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now come to that blindness, that whatsoever pleases not the princes and the multitude, the same is rejected as doctrine newly forged, and is condemned for heresy.

Let a thing here be noted, that the prophet of God sometimes may teach treason against kings, and yet neither he nor such as obey the word, spoken in the Lord's name by him, offend God.