If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.

If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.

How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike!

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

Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour.

The best ground untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds. A man of knowledge that is negligent or uncorrected, cannot but grow wild and godless.

It is not sin that kills the soul, but impenitence.