A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.

Satan will be ready to help forward such thoughts as a fit medium to lift thee up , and slacken thy care in duty for the future. Such discoveries do indeed bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree and measure of it. The weak child may be, yea, is, oftener in the lap than the strong.

Whoever hath a seed time of grace pass over his soul, shall have his harvest time also of joy.

Thou hast no life to lose, because thou hast given it already to Christ, nor can man take away that without God's leave.

If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.

To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.

The Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his holy constancy in the truth.