To believe that He will preserve us is, indeed, a means of preservation. God will certainly preserve us, and make a way of escape for us out of the temptation, should we fall. We are to pray for what God has already promised. Our requests are to be regulated by His promises and commands. Faith embraces the promises and so finds relief.

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

He that is more frequent in his pulpit to his people than he is in his closet for his people, is but a sorry watchman.

If we believe not with faith divine and supernatural, we believe not at all.

If our principal treasure be as we profess, in things spiritual and heavenly, and woe unto us if it be not so! on them will our affections, and consequently our desires and thoughts, be principally fixed.

On Christ’s glory I would fix all my thoughts and desires, and the more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes and I will be more and more crucified to this world. It will become to me like something dead and putrid, impossible for me to enjoy.

The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word