The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.

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.

Indwelling sin always abides whilst we are in this world; therefore it is always to be mortified.

If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine.

All that may be known of God for our salvation, especially his wisdom, love, goodness, grace and mercy on which the life of our souls depends, are represented to us in all their splendour in and through Christ. No wonder then that Christ is glorious in the eyes of believers!

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

The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever.