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.

When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone.

A true saving knowledge of sin is to be had only in the Lord Christ: in him may we see the desert of our iniquities.

I did not hear what I should have listened to.

Christ is the meat, the bread, the food of our souls. Nothing is in him of a higher spiritual nourishment than his love, which we should always desire.

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.

It must be observed, that the best of men, the most holy and spiritually minded, may have, nay, ought to have, their thoughts of spiritual things excited, multiplied, and confirmed, by the preaching of the word.