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

The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation. Humility is not a mere ornament of a Christian, but an essential part of the new creature: it is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true Christian, and not humble.

In a divine commonwealth holiness must have the principal honor and encouragement, and a great difference be made between the precious and the vile.

It is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true christian, and not humble.

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.

Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their minds with tickling levity and affect them as stage plays used to, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence for the name of God.

Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied.