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.

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.

There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.

None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions.

Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.

With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.

Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.