God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.

Faith, whereby especially Christ rules, sets the soul so high that it looks down on all other things as far below, as having represented to it, by the Spirit of Christ, riches, honor, beauty and pleasures of a higher nature.

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.

What coward would not fight when he is sure of victory?

There are no men more careful of the use of means than those that are surest of a good issue and conclusion, for the one stirs up diligence in the other. Assurance of the end stirs up diligence in the means. For the soul of a believing Christian knows that God has decreed both.

Gospel repentance is not a little hanging down of the head. It's a working of the heart until your sin becomes more odious to you than any punishment for it.

Providence is the perpetuity and continuance of creation.