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.

The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.

As you love your peace, Christian, be plain-hearted with God and man, and keep the king's highway.

Thou hast no life to lose, because thou hast given it already to Christ, nor can man take away that without God's leave.

In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.

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.

We are justified, not by giving anything to God,--what we do,--but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.