When a founder has cast a bell he does not presently fix it in the steeple, but tries it with his hammer, and beats it on every side to see if there be any flaw in it. So Christ doth not presently after he hath converted a man, convey him to heaven; but suffers him first to be beaten upon by many temptations and then exalts him to his crown.

Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly.

Our Heavenly Father always sends His children the things they ask, or better things.

Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.

The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know that they mean in it.

Providence is a greater mystery than revelation.

Nothing can be proposed so wild or so absurd as not to find a party, and often a very large party to espouse it.