Satan will be ready to help forward such thoughts as a fit medium to lift thee up , and slacken thy care in duty for the future. Such discoveries do indeed bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree and measure of it. The weak child may be, yea, is, oftener in the lap than the strong.

For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.

One Almighty is more than all mighties

All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.

When people do not mind what God speaks to them in His word, God doth as little mind what they say to Him in prayer.

The Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his holy constancy in the truth.

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