the whole Pelagian poison of free-will ... a clear exaltation of the old idol free-will into the throne of God ... That the decaying estate of Christianity have invented.

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

Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it.

If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction

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

The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition!