Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.

Better to bear than to swear, and to die than to lie.

The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.

Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are all the hell that ever you shall have.

That sorrow for sin that keeps the soul from looking towards the mercy seat is a sinful sorrow.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Christ is to be answerable for all those that are given to Him, at the last day, and therefore we need not doubt but that He will certainly employ all the power of His Godhead to secure and save all those that He must be accountable for. Christ's charge and care of these that are given to Him, extends even to the very day of their resurrection, that He may not so much as lose their dust, but gather it together again, and raise it up in glory to be a proof of His fidelity; for, saith He, "I shall lose nothing, but raise it up again at the last day."