The Christian's life should put his minister's sermon in print.

The storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary.

It is no policy to let thy lusts have arms, which are sure to rise and declare against thee when thine enemy comes.

Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan's landing places, especially the eye and the ear.

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."

Satan cannot deny but that great wonders have been wrought by prayer. As the spirit of prayer goes up, so his kingdom goes down. Satan's strategems against prayer are three. First, if he can, he will keep thee from prayer. If that be not feasible, secondly, he will strive to interrupt thee in prayer. And, thirdly, if that plot takes not, he will labour to hinder the success of thy prayer.

Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.