Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.
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.
What is Jordan that I should wash in it? What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew before? What are these beggarly elements of water, bread, and wine? Are not these the reasonings of a soul that forgets who appoints the means of grace?
The Christian is bred by the Word, and he must be fed by it.
Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.
Great comforts do, indeed, bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree of it; the weak child is oftener in the lap than the strong one.
God would not rub so hard if it were not to fetch out the dirt that is ingrained in our natures. God loves purity so well He had rather see a hole than a spot in His child’s garments.
We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise.
We must not confide in the armour of God, but in the God of this armour, because all our weapons are only mighty through God.
The chains of love are stronger than the chains of fear.
Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin.
Christ is the door that opens into God’s presence and lets the soul into His very bosom, faith is the key that unlocks the door; but the Spirit is He that makes this key.
Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.
He that loves the Word and the purity of its precepts cannot turn traitor.
There is no such way to be even with the devil and his instruments, for all their spite against us, as by doing what good we can wherever we be come.
Never venture near the door where sin dwells, lest you are dragged in.
Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.
Therefore tremble, O man, at any power thou hast, except thou usest it for God. Art thou strong in body; who hath thy strength? God, or thy lusts?
Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.