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.

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

How can God stoop lower than to come and dwell with a poor humble soul? Which is more than if he had said, such a one should dwell with him; for a beggar to live at court is not so much as the king to dwell with him in his cottage.

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."

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.

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

It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.