The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.

He that is more frequent in his pulpit to his people than he is in his closet for his people, is but a sorry watchman.

When the Holy Spirit sanctifies believers, he does a complete work in them. He puts into their minds, wills and hearts a gracious, supernatural principle which fills them with a holy desire to live to God. The whole life and being of holiness lies in this. This is the new creation.

Your state is not at all to be measured by the opposition that sin makes to you, but by the opposition you make to it.

The natural man "cannot see or discern that divine excellency in the Scripture, without an apprehension whereof no man can believe it aright to be the word of God."

When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone.

Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but He died for all God's elect, that they should believe.