Take notice not only of the mercies of God, but of God in the mercies. Mercies are never so savoury as when they savour a Saviour.

Take notice not only of the mercies of God, but of God in the mercies. Mercies are never so savoury as when they savour a Saviour.

The Hebrews have a saying that God is more delighted in adverbs than in nouns; it is not so much the matter that is done, but the matter how it is done, that God minds. Not how much, but how well! It is the well-doing that meets with a well-done. Let us therefore serve God, not nominally or verbally, but adverbially.

That is good which doth good.

To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.

Sin promises like a God but pays like a Devil

Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.