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.

When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses.

It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell.

God's truth always agrees with itself.

If we would make it evident that our conversion is sound, we must loathe and hate sin from the heart.

The life of a Christian should be a meditation how to unloose his affection from inferior things. He will easily die that is dead before in affection.

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