Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or example to cry, but instructed by nature; it comes into the world crying. Praying is not a lesson got by forms and rules of art, but flowing from principles of new life itself.

Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.

We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise.

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

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.

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.

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