Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.

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

The regenerating Spirit is compared to the wind. His first attempts on the soul may be so secret that the creature knows not whence they come, or whither they tend; but, before he hath done, the sound will be heard throughout the soul.

Indeed all the saints are taught the same lesson - to renounce their own strength, and rely on the power of God; their own policy, and cast themselves on the wisdom of God; their own righteousness, and expect all from the pure mercy of God in Christ, which act of faith is so pleasing to God, that such a soul shall never be ashamed.

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.

He that loves the Word and the purity of its precepts cannot turn traitor.

There is no such way to be even with the devil and his instruments, for all their spite against us, as by doing what good we can wherever we be come.