All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.

The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.

It is the saint's duty, and should be their care, not only to believe that God is Almighty, but also to strongly believe that His almighty power is engaged for our defense and help in all of our straits and temptations.

Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.

Pride of gifts robs us of God's blessing in the use of them.

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.

God is very precise in this point; he will say to such as invent ways to worship him of their own, coin means to mortify corruption, obtain comfort in their own mint: 'Who hath required this at your hands?' This is truly to be 'righteous over-much,' as Solomon speaks, when we will pretend to correct God's law, and add supplements of our own to his rule.