Christ has no velvet crosses.
To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith
Heaven is a house full of miracles; yea, of spectacles and images of free grace.
Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation.
O, what I owe to the file, the hammer, and the furnace of the Lord Jesus! I know that he is no idle husbandman - he purposes a crop.
Make not Christ a liar in distrusting His promise.