Whoever hath a seed time of grace pass over his soul, shall have his harvest time also of joy.

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.

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

What is Jordan that I should wash in it? What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew before? What are these beggarly elements of water, bread, and wine? Are not these the reasonings of a soul that forgets who appoints the means of grace?

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

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?

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