Affliction doth not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord that sends it, and we should own and reverence His hand in it.

God will not pity them, but “laugh at their calamity.” The blessed company in heaven shall rejoice in the execution of God's righteous judgment, and sing while the smoke riseth up for ever.

Free grace will fix those whom free will shook down into a gulf of misery.

The gospel casts out a rope to hale sinners to land; but the sinner has no hands to lay hold on it; his very faith must be wrought in him by the Spirit.

The law discovers the disease, and the gospel the physician.

There is no true believing or trusting to the report of the gospel, but what is the effect of the working of a divine power on the soul for that end.

God will hold sinners with one hand over the pit of hell, while He torments them with the other.