If the show of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better; for why does any man dissemble, or seem to be that which he is not, but because he thinks it good to have such a quality as he pretends to?

If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.

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.

Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly?

For the spiritual efficacy of the Sacrament doth not depend upon the nature of the thing received, supposing we received what our Lord appointed, and receive it with a right preparation and disposition of mind, but upon the supernatural blessing that goes along with it, and makes it effectual to those spiritual ends for which it was appointed.

The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.