Our enemies are on every side, so must our armour be.

One Almighty is more than all mighties

Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or example to cry, but instructed by nature; it comes into the world crying. Praying is not a lesson got by forms and rules of art, but flowing from principles of new life itself.

Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.

Christ will bear no equal, and Satan no superior; and therefore, hold in with both thou canst not.

He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.