CEASE to PRAY and thou will BEGIN to SIN.

Therefore tremble, O man, at any power thou hast, except thou usest it for God. Art thou strong in body; who hath thy strength? God, or thy lusts?

Weak faith will as surely land the Christian in heaven as strong faith, for it is impossible the least dram of true grace should perish

Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death.

As the eye of the body once put out, can never be restored by the creature's art, so neither can the spiritual eye lost by Adam's sin be restored by the teaching of men or angels. It is one of the diseases which Christ came to cure.

Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.

The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.