I know not a better rule of reading the Scripture, than to read it through from beginning to end and when we have finished it once, to begin it again. We shall meet with many passages which we can make little improvement of, but not so many in the second reading as in the first, and fewer in the third than in the second: provided we pray to him who has the keys to open our understandings, and to anoint our eyes with His spiritual ointment.

Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.

How many times has He delivered me! Yet, alas! How distrustful and ungrateful is my heart even until the present!

Christ has taken our nature into Heaven to represent us; and has left us on earth, with His nature, to represent Him.

Not only the guilt, but the love of sin, and its dominion, are taken away, subdued by grace, and cordially renounced by the believing pardoned sinner.

There are many who stumble in the noon-day, not for want of light, but for want of eyes.

I know not a better rule of reading the Scripture, than to read it through from beginning to end and when we have finished it once, to begin it again. We shall meet with many passages which we can make little improvement of, but not so many in the second reading as in the first, and fewer in the third than in the second: provided we pray to him who has the keys to open our understandings, and to anoint our eyes with His spiritual ointment.