The weightiest end of the cross of Christ that is laid upon you, lieth upon your strong Savior.

I know that, as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so is Christ's absence of special use, and that it hath some nourishing virtue in it, and giveth sap to humility, and putteth an edge on hunger, and funisheth a fairfield to faith to put forth itself, and to exercise its fingers in gripping it seeth not what.

When the supreme magistrate will not execute the judgment of the Lord, those who made him supreme magistrate, under God, who have under God, sovereighn liberty to dispose of crowns and kingdoms, are to execute the judgment of the Lord, when wicked men make the law of God of none effect.

Your heart is not the compass that God steers by.

Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers us.

I see Christ's love is so kingly, that it will not abide a marrow it must have a throne all alone in the soul.

Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified, cross is a fruitful tree.