This little member can behold the earth, and in a moment view things as high as heaven.

How worthy it is to remember former benefits when we come to beg for new.

Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience is God's eye, mercy is God's delight, eternity is God's duration, but holiness is God's beauty!

Our ignorance of God is too great, because our estimations of God are too little.

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.

What a curious workmanship is that of the eye, which is in the body, as the sun in the world; set in the head as in a watch-tower, having the softest nerves for receiving the greater multitude of spirits necessary for the act of vision!

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.