It being our duty to mortify... we must be at work. He that is appointed to kill an enemy, if he leave striking before the other ceases living, does but half his work.

He who finds not opposition from sin, and who sets not himself in every particular to its mortification, is at peace with it, not dying to it.

Not to be daily mortifying sin, is to sin against the goodness, kindness, wisdom, grace, and love of God, who hath furnished us with a principle of doing it.

Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.

Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us.

Let, then, the word be preached, and the sins of men will be rebuked, lust will be restrained, and some oppositions will be made against sin, though that be not the effect aimed at.

Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.’ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.