As the eye of the body once put out, can never be restored by the creature's art, so neither can the spiritual eye lost by Adam's sin be restored by the teaching of men or angels. It is one of the diseases which Christ came to cure.

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

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?

Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.

Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.

Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death. Why shouldst thou be afraid to die, who hopest to live by dying!

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.