It is Christ's manner to trouble our souls first, and then to come with healing in his wings.

God's truth always agrees with itself.

A curse lies upon those that, when the truth suffers, have not a word to defend it.

God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.

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.

If Christ has once possessed the affections, there is no dispossessing of him again. A fire in the heart overcomes all fires without.

It is atheism to pray and not wait on hope.