When we are calling to God to turn the eye of His favor towards us He is calling to us to turn the eye of our obedience towards Him.

We should take heed of pride; it is a sin that turned angels into devils.

It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.

May Christ be our joy, our confidence, our all. May we daily be made more like to Him, and more devoted to His service.

Death to a good man is his release from the imprisonment of this world, and his departure to the enjoyments of another world.

God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself and a continued readiness for every event.

By the light of nature we see God as a God above us, by the light of the law we see Him as a God against us, but by the light of the gospel we see Him as Emmanuel, God with us.