Christ quickens none but the dead. Why do not the papists attain to this grace of justification? They never see themselves wholly dead, but join some life to the natural estate of man. Therefore Christ quickens them not.

God will have the body partake with the soul-as in matters of grief, so in matters of joy; the lanthorn shines in the light of the candle within.

See a flame in a spark, a tree in a seed. See great things in little beginnings.

When we go to God by prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore he opposes us all he can.

The way to cover our sin is to uncover it by confession.

In the godly, holy truths are conveyed by way of a taste; gracious men have a spiritual palate as well as a spiritual eye. Grace alters the spiritual taste.

that which is begun in self-confidence will end in shame.