Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.

Of all creatures in this visible world, light is the most glorious; of all light, the light of the sun without compare excels the rest.

There is no such way to be even with the devil and his instruments, for all their spite against us, as by doing what good we can wherever we be come.

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.

It is one thing to know a truth, and another thing to know it by unction.

Blind zeal is soon put to a shameful retreat, while holy resolution, built on fast principles, lifts up its head like a rock in the midst of the waves.

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.