Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin.

I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, though I see him at present in a swoon (faint)as to all evidences of the spiritual life. And the reason why I will not judge him so is this -- because if you judge a person dead, you neglect him, you leave him; but if you judge him in a swoon,(faint) though never so dangerous, you use all means for the retrieving of his life.

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit.

There neither is, nor ever was, in the world, nor ever shall be, the least dram of holiness, but what, flowing from Jesus Christ, is communicated by the Spirit, according to the truth and promise of the gospel.

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.

What then is holiness? Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing and living out of the gospel in our souls (Eph 4:24).

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.