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.
Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.
Whoever hath a seed time of grace pass over his soul, shall have his harvest time also of joy.
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.
Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.
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.
Our enemies are on every side, so must our armour be.
For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.
The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.
Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death. Why shouldst thou be afraid to die, who hopest to live by dying!
Truly, hope is the saint’s covering, wherein he wraps himself, when he lays his body down to sleep in the grave: “My flesh,” saith David, “shall rest in hope.”
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.
The Christian is to proclaim and prosecute an irreconcilable war against his bosom sins; those sins which have lain nearest his heart, must now be trampled under his feet.
Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool’s coat thither.
Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan’s landing places, especially the eye and the ear.
It is no policy to let thy lusts have arms, which are sure to rise and declare against thee when thine enemy comes.
Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death.
The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan’s prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.
Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.
We must come to good works by faith, and not to faith by good works.