Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.

The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.

A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.

It is God’s will through His wonderful grace, that the prayers of His saints should be one of the great principal means of carrying on the designs of Christ’s kingdom in the world. When God has something very great to accomplish for His church, it is His will that there should precede it the extraordinary prayers of His people; as is manifest by Ezekiel 36:37. and it is revealed that, when God is about to accomplish great things for His church, He will begin by remarkably pouring out the spirit of grace and supplication (see Zechariah 12:10).

Why should not He had made all things, still having something immediately to do with the things that He has made? Where lies the great difficulty, if we own the being of a God, that He created all things out of nothing, I'll be allowing something immediate influence of God on creation still?

Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.