How many, alas, of the precious saints of God must we shut out from being believers, if there is no faith but what amounts to assurance.... shall we say their faith went away in the departure of their assurance?

God Himself underwrites your battle and has appointed His own Son 'the captain of your salvation'.

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.

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."

Pride of gifts robs us of God's blessing in the use of them.

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

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