Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.
The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.
And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.
It is one thing to know a truth, and another thing to know it by unction.
The Christian's life should put his minister's sermon in print.
We need not borrow and take up sorrows upon use of the morrow, to make up our present load; as we read of daily bread, so of a daily cross, Luke ix. M, which we are bid to take, not to make.