God loves the saints as the purchase of his Son's blood. They cost him dear, and that which is so hardly got shall not be easily lost. He that was willing to expend his Son's blood to gain them, will not deny his power to keep them.

The Christian is bred by the Word, and he must be fed by it.

Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.

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

Christ hath told us He will come, but not when, that we might never put off our clothes, or put out the candle.

Weak faith will as surely land the Christian in heaven as strong faith, for it is impossible the least dram of true grace should perish

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.