It is no policy to let thy lusts have arms, which are sure to rise and declare against thee when thine enemy comes.

The Christian, like a chalice without a base, cannot stand on his own nor hold what he has received any longer that God holds him in His strong hands.

We need not borrow and take up sorrows upon use of the morrow, to make up our present load; as we read of daily bread, so of a daily cross, Luke ix. M, which we are bid to take, not to make.

The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.

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

As the eye of the body once put out, can never be restored by the creature's art, so neither can the spiritual eye lost by Adam's sin be restored by the teaching of men or angels. It is one of the diseases which Christ came to cure.

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