Works make not the heart good, but a good heart makes the works good.

A proud faith is as much a contradiction as a humble devil.

Accustom yourself to serious meditation every morning. Fresh airing our souls in heaven will engender in us a purer spirit and nobler thoughts. A morning seasoning will secure us for all the day.

Had it been published by a voice from heaven, that twelve poor men, taken out of boats and creeks, without any help of learning, should conquer the world to the cross, it might have been thought an illusion against all reason of men; yet we know it was undertaken and accomplished by them.

How comfortable it is to have One, day and night, before the throne to control the charge of our enemy, and the despondencies of our souls.

In natures, we see God, as it were, like the sun in a picture; in the law, as the sun in a cloud; in Christ we see Him in His beams; He being 'the brightness of His glory, and the exact image of His person.

Since therefore all things are ordered in subserviency to the good of man, they are so ordered by Him that made both man and them.