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.

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

God's children improve all advantages to advance their grand end; they labour to grow better by blessings and crosses, and to make sanctified use of all things.

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.

A man knows no more in religion than he loves and embraceth with the affections of his soul.

No sin is so great but the satisfaction of Christ and His mercies are greater; it is beyond comparison. Fathers and mothers in tenderest affections are but beams and trains to lead us upwards to the infinite mercy of God in Christ.

It is a destructive addition to add anything to Christ