He that stands still and suffers his enemies to double blows upon him without resistance, will undoubtedly be conquered in the issue.

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit.

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

I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, though I see him at present in a swoon (faint)as to all evidences of the spiritual life. And the reason why I will not judge him so is this -- because if you judge a person dead, you neglect him, you leave him; but if you judge him in a swoon,(faint) though never so dangerous, you use all means for the retrieving of his life.

No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by faith.

To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive, and will live.

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