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

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?

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.

Christ will bear no equal, and Satan no superior; and therefore, hold in with both thou canst not.

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.

Truly, hope is the saint's covering, wherein he wraps himself, when he lays his body down to sleep in the grave: "My flesh," saith David, "shall rest in hope."

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