What unthankfulness is it to forget our consolations, and to look upon matters of grievance. To think so much upon two or three crosses as to forget an hundred blessing.
It is Christ's manner to trouble our souls first, and then to come with healing in his wings.
Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness.
A man may be a false prophet and yet speak the truth.
A curse lies upon those that, when the truth suffers, have not a word to defend it.
God knows we have nothing of ourselves, therefore in the covenant of grace he requires no more than he gives, but gives what he requires, and accepts what he gives.