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

Can Christ be in thou heart and thou not know it? Can one king be dethroned and another crowned in thy soul and thou hear no scuffle?

Sometimes, perhaps, thou hearest another pray with much freedom and fluency, whilst thou canst hardly get out a few broken words. Hence thou art ready to accuse thyself and admire him, as if the gilding of the key made it open the door the better.

God loves the saints as the purchase of his Son's blood. They cost him dear, and that which is so hardly got shall not be easily lost. He that was willing to expend his Son's blood to gain them, will not deny his power to keep them.

Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.

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

It is the image of God reflected in you that so enrages hell; it is this at which the demons hurl their mightiest weapons.