'Tis hard preaching a stone into tears, or making a rock to tremble.

Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy scriptures ever have the pre-eminence, and, next to them, those solid, lively, heavenly treatises which best expound and apply the scriptures, and next, credible histories, especially of the Church... but take heed of false teachers who would corrupt your understandings.

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

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.

Most (Christians) have an ungrounded trust in Christ, hoping that He will pardon, justify and save them, while the world has their hearts, and they live to the flesh. And this trust they take as justifying faith.

Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.