You shall find this to be God's usual course: not to give his children the taste of his delights till they begin to sweat in seeking after them.

A foolish physician he is, and a most unfaithful friend, that will let a sick man die for fear of troubling him; and cruel wretches are we to our friends, that will rather suffer them to go quietly to hell, then we will anger them, or hazard our reputation with them.

To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation.

Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?

Take heed to yourselves, lest you perish while you call upon others to take heed of perishing, and lest you famish yourselves while you prepare their food.

You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to the devil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, represent the same sinful pleasure to you anew.

Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.