Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

Christ so loves his people that he sings with joy over them.

By faith ponder on this, that though thou art no way able in or by thyself to get the conquest over thy distemper, though thou art even weary of contending, and art utterly ready to faint, yet that there is enough in Jesus Christ to yield thee relief.

Only what God has commanded in His word should be regarded as binding; in all else there may be liberty of actions.

Christ by his death destroying the works of the devil, procuring the Spirit for us, hath so killed sin, as to its reign in believers, that it shall not obtain its end and dominion.

We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.

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.