This is the sanctification of your studies: when they are devoted to God, and when He is the end, the object, and the life of them all.

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

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

God takes men's hearty desires and will, instead of the deed, where they have not power to fulfill it; but he never took the bare deed instead of the will.

Though selfishness hath defiled the whole man, yet sensual pleasure is the chief part of its interest, and, therefore, by the senses it commonly works; and these are the doors and windows by which iniquity entereth into the soul.

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

Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else from early boyhood to decrepit old age, with the utmost leisure, the most unwearied zeal, and talents greater than I have, I would be still daily making progress in discovering their treasures.