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.

Job's friends chose the right time to visit him, but took not the right course of improving their visit; had they spent the time in praying for him which they did in hot disputes with him, they would have profited him, and pleased God more.

The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.

To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.

The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.

Never venture near the door where sin dwells, lest you are dragged in.

Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.