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.

Without the heart it’s not worship, it’s a stage play.

It is the black work of an ungodly man or an atheist, that God is not in all his thoughts. What comfort can be had in the being of God without thinking of him with reverence and delight? A God forgotten is as good as no God to us.

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.

Since nothing but God is eternal, nothing but God is worth the loving.