Once more consider, there is nothing, but heaven, worth setting our hearts upon.

If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion.

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.

A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course.

I like to hear a man dwell much on the same essentials of Christianity. For we have but one God, and one Christ, and one faith to preach; and I will not preach another Gospel to please men with variety, as if our Saviour and our Gospel had grown stale.

Paganism attributes the creation of the world to blind chance.

Above all be much in secret prayer and meditation. By this you will fetch the heavenly fire that must kindle your sacrifice: remember you cannot decline and neglect your duty to your own hurt alone, many will be losers by it as well as you.