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?

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

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.

We are justified, not by giving anything to God,--what we do,--but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.

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

He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.

Job's friends chose the right time to visit him, but took not the right course of improving their visit; had they spent the time in praying for him which they did in hot disputes with him, they would have profited him, and pleased God more.