A natural man hath no such thing as free-will at all, if you take it for a power of doing that which is good and well-pleasing unto God in things spiritual.

Free will is "corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds"

All that may be known of God for our salvation, especially his wisdom, love, goodness, grace and mercy on which the life of our souls depends, are represented to us in all their splendour in and through Christ. No wonder then that Christ is glorious in the eyes of believers!

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

Herein would I live; herein would I die; hereon would I dwell in my thoughts and affections; to the withering and consumption of all the painted beauties of this world, unto the crucifying all things here below, until they become unto me a dead and deformed thing, no way meet for affectionate embraces.

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

That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.