Sin will usher in the greatest and the saddest losses that can be upon our souls.

Repentance is the vomit of the soul.

The only ground of God's love is his love.

Christ dwells in that heart most eminently that hath emptied itself of itself.

When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.

True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans.

The purpose of God is the sovereign cause of all that good that is in man, and of all that external, internal and eternal good that comes to man. Not works past, for men are chosen from everlasting; not works present, for Jacob was loved and chosen before he was born; nor works foreseen, for men were all corrupt in Adam. All a believer's present happiness, and all his future happiness springs from the eternal purpose of God.