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

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

Pride is self contending with God for preeminence.

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.

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.

God knows all that is done in the most secret caverns of the heart. No place is deprived of his presence.

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.