Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.

If they be principles evident of themselves, they need nothing to evidence them.

Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed.

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness and rending in pieces the Church of Christ by needless separations and endless divisions.

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.