No wonder if such persons look upon imputed righteousness as the shadow of a dream, who esteem those things which evidence its necessity to be but fond imaginations. And small hope is there to bring such men to value the righteousness of Christ, as imputed to them, who are so unacquainted with their own unrighteousness inherent in them. Until men know themselves better, they will care very little to know Christ at all.

We ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod as upon our daily bread.

Men think all things would be very glorious if they might be done according to their mind. Perhaps, indeed, they would-but with their glory, not the glory of God.

A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.

There is a state of perfect peace with God to be attained under imperfect obedience.

Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.’ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.

Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion in the world.