The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved.
Hypocrites do the devil’s drudgery in Christ’s livery.
Women were created from the rib of man to be beside him, not from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled by him, but from under his arm to be protected by him, near to his heart to be loved by him.
Cast not away your confidence because God defers his performances. That which does not come in your time, will be hastened in his time, which is always the more convenient season. God will work when he pleases, how he pleases, and by what means he pleases. He is not bound to keep our time, but he will perform his work, honor our faith, and reward them that diligently seek him.
If you take a book into your hands, be it ‘God’s book, or any other useful good book,’ rely on God to make it profitable to you. Do not waste time reading unprofitable books. When you read, do so not out of vain curiosity but with love for God’s kingdom, compassion for human beings, and the intent to turn what you learn into prayers and praises.
It is a great happiness to be under the influence of the Holy Ghost.
If we have, through grace, an interest in Him who is the Fountain, we may rejoice in him when the streams of temporal mercies are dried up.
There may be idols in the heart, where there are none in the sanctuary.
The way to forget our miseries, is to remember the God of our mercies.
When the sins of a people reach up to heaven, the wrath of God will reach down to the earth.
Events are not determined by the wheel of fortune, which is blind, but by the wheels of Providence, which are full of eyes.
Come, Lord Jesus, put an end to this state of sin, sorrow, and temptation;.
Jesus Christ in his person is God manifest in the flesh, he is light of light, the true Shechinah.
All those who rejoice in the success of the church’s enemies will share with them in their downfall; and those who have most indulged themselves in pride and pleasure are the least able to bear calamities; their sorrows will be as excessive as their pleasure and jollity were before.
If the leprosy of sin have seized the head, if the judgment be corrupted, and wicked principles which countenance and support wicked practices, be embraced, it is an utter uncleanness, from which few are ever cleansed.
Note, The devil, though he is an enemy to all saints, is a conquered enemy. The Captain of our salvation has defeated and disarmed him; we have nothing to do but to pursue the victory.
Outward losses drive good people to their prayers, but bad people to their curses.
Thus have they committed two great evils, in which they persist, and from which they hate to be reformed; they take away from God’s word, and add to his worship.
The wits or wills of men, their inventions or their injunctions, cannot make that to be sin which the law of God has not made to be so.
When God pardons sin he quite abolishes it, casts it behind his back.