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

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

How can God stoop lower than to come and dwell with a poor humble soul? Which is more than if he had said, such a one should dwell with him; for a beggar to live at court is not so much as the king to dwell with him in his cottage.

And therefore you who think so basely of the gospel and the professors of it, because at present their peace and comfort is not come, know it is on the way to them, and comes to stay everlastingly with them; whereas your peace is going from you every moment, and is sure to leave you without any hope of returning to you again. Look not how the Christian begins, but ends. The Spirit of God by his convictions comes into the soul with some terrors, but it closeth with peace and joy.

A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.

If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.

The Christian's life should put his minister's sermon in print.