The purpose of our holy and righteous God was to save his church, but their sin could not go unpunished. It was, therefore, necessary that the punishment for that sin be transferred from those who deserved it but could not bear it, to one who did not deserve it but was able to bear it.

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

It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.

To those to whom Christ is the hope of future glory, he is also the life of present grace.

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

Did you never run for shelter in a storm, and find fruit which you expected not? Did you never go to God for safeguard, driven by outward storms, and there find unexpected fruit?

When the heart is once won to rest in God, to repose himself on him, he will assuredly satisfy it. He will never be as water that fails; nor hath he said at any time to the seed of Jacob, "Seek ye my face in vain." If Christ be chosen for the foundation of our supply, he will not fail us.