If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.

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

Remember that pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul's peace and sweet communion with Christ; it was the first sin that ever was, and lies lowest in the foundation of Satan's whole building, and is the most difficultly rooted out, and is the most hidden, secret and deceitful of all lusts, and often creeps in, insensibly, into the midst of religion and sometimes under the disguise of humility.

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?

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.

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