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.

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

A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.

The Christian, like a chalice without a base, cannot stand on his own nor hold what he has received any longer that God holds him in His strong hands.

Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.

It is one thing to know a truth, and another thing to know it by unction.