Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.

We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.

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

When the heart is once won to rest in God, to repose himself on him, he will assuredly satisfy it. He will never be as water that fails; nor hath he said at any time to the seed of Jacob, "Seek ye my face in vain." If Christ be chosen for the foundation of our supply, he will not fail us.

The mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the works or deeds of the flesh is the constant duty of believers.

When the Holy Spirit sanctifies believers, he does a complete work in them. He puts into their minds, wills and hearts a gracious, supernatural principle which fills them with a holy desire to live to God. The whole life and being of holiness lies in this. This is the new creation.

If private revelations agree with Scripture, they are needless, and if they disagree, they are false.