He that hath slight thoughts of sin, never had great thoughts of God.

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.

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

Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers.

The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here in this world, are nothing but self-deceiving imaginations.

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

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.