The Christian is bred by the Word, and he must be fed by it.

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

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?

Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.

Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.

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

God, to prevent all escape, hath sown the seeds of death in our very constitution and nature, so that we can as soon run from ourselves, as run from death. We need no feller to come with a hand of violence and hew us down; there is in the tree a worm, which grows out of its own substance, that will destroy it; so in us, those infirmities of nature that will bring us down to the dust.