Words are as they are taken, and things are as they are used. There are even cursed blessings.

Sorrows, because they are lingering guests, I will entertain but moderately, knowing that the more they are made of the longer they will continue: and for pleasures, because they stay not, and do but call to drink at my door, I will use them as passengers with slight respect. He is his own best friend that makes the least of both of them.

Mark in what order: first, our calling; then, our election; not beginning with our election first. By our calling, arguing our election.

Words are as they are taken, and things are as they are used. There are even cursed blessings.

How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.

God loveth adverbs; and cares not how good, but how well.

Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it.