Unbelief was the first sin, and pride was the first-born of it.

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.

Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.

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.

Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.

Since we are dead in sin, a spiritual light and flame in the heart suitable to the nature of the object of our worship, cannot be raised in us without the operation of supernatural grace... such a worship God must have, whereby he is acknowledged to be the true sanctifier and quickener of the soul.

God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the dusky colors, on which he intends to draw the portraiture of some illustrious beauty.