Humility is the great preserver of peace and order in all Christian churches and societies, consequently pride is the great disturber of them, and the cause of most dissensions and breaches in the church.

The streams of religion run deep or shallow, according as the banks of the Sabbath are kept up or neglected.

We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God's all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might.

Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

Those that abide in Christ as their heart's desire shall have, through Christ, their heart's desire.

It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.