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.

Be killing sin or it will be killing you.

The love of God is like himself – equal, constant, not capable of augmentation or diminution; our love is like ourselves – unequal, increasing, waning, growing, declining. His, like the sun, always the same in its light, though a cloud may sometimes interpose; ours, as the moon, has its enlargements and straightenings.

No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by faith.

He that loves works out good to those that he loves, as he is able. God's power and will are equal; what He wills He works.

Sin also carries on its war by entangling the affections and drawing them into an alliance against the mind. Grace may be enthroned in the mind, but if sin controls the affections, it has seized a fort from which it will continually assault the soul. Hence, as we shall see, mortification is chiefly directed to take place upon the affections.

There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience.