The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin.

It is evident that you contend against sin merely because of how it troubles you.

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

Christ so loves his people that he sings with joy over them.

No wonder if such persons look upon imputed righteousness as the shadow of a dream, who esteem those things which evidence its necessity to be but fond imaginations. And small hope is there to bring such men to value the righteousness of Christ, as imputed to them, who are so unacquainted with their own unrighteousness inherent in them. Until men know themselves better, they will care very little to know Christ at all.

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

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