I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.

The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?

A man pleaser cannot be true to God, because he is a servant to the enemies of his service; the wind of a man's mouth will drive him about as the chaff, from any duty, and to any sin.

Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that may be called their own. They are far readier to make themselves a faith, than to receive that which God hath formed to their hands; are far readier to receive a doctrine that tends to their carnal commodity, or honor, or delight, than one that tends to self-denial.

Is it but right that our hearts should be on God, when the heart of God is so much on us.

Speak to your people as to men that must be awakened, either here or in hell.

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.