It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.

If I were to go to heaven, and find that Christ was not there, I would leave immediately; for heaven without Christ would be hell to me.

Being in Christ, and united to Him, is the fundamental constitution of a Christian.

We have the promise of God's being our God, and of the blessing by Christ for ourselves, as we are Abraham's seed, yet take the whole promise collectively made to him and us.

The children of believing parents, at least their next and immediate seed, even of us Gentiles now under the gospel, are included by God within the covenant of grace.

When God will have any great matters done, he sets his people's hearts to work at prayer by a kind of gracious instinct. He stirs them up and moves their hearts by the influence of his Holy Spirit.

Glory in nothing, but only in this, that you are in Christ. For God chose you in him; the being you had was in him before the world was.