We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.

I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.

The new goddess contingency could not be erected until the God of heaven was utterly despoiled of his dominion over the sons of men, and in the room thereof a home-bred idol of self-sufficiency set up, and the world persuaded to worship it. But that the building climb no higher, let all men observe how the word of God overthrows this babylonian tower.

We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.

As rivers, the nearer they come to the ocean whither they tend, the more they increase their waters, and speed their streams; so will grace flow more fully and freely in its near approaches to the ocean of glory.

the whole Pelagian poison of free-will ... a clear exaltation of the old idol free-will into the throne of God ... That the decaying estate of Christianity have invented.

There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed on; and it will be so whilst we live in this world.