Occupation: Author Birth: 1627 Death: 1691
What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves!.
No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified..
Suppose that by revenge you might destroy one enemy; yet, by exercising the Christian's temper you might conquer three–your own lust, Satan's tempt….
The Providence of God is like Hebrew words-it can be read only backwards..
Christ [is] the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are gathered into the ocean, which….
As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low..
As the blood of Christ is the fountain of all merit, so the Spirit of Christ is the fountain of all spiritual life; and until he quicken us and infus….
To see a man humble under prosperity is one of the greatest rarities in the world..
Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves..
The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying..
The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated..
Let us see that our knowledge of Christ be not a powerless, barren, unpractical knowledge: O that, in its passage from our understanding to our lips,….
Whatever be the ground of one's distress, it should drive him to, not from God..
Whatsoever we have over-loved, idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to see the vanity of it; so that we find t….
If you neglect to instruct children in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of wickedness? No; if you will not tea….
The knowledge of Christ is profound and large. All other sciences are but shadows; this is a boundless, bottomless ocean. Though something of Christ ….
When God gives you comforts, it is your great evil not to observe His hand in them..
Look to it, my dear friends, that none of you be found Christless at your appearance before him. Those that continue Christless now, will be left spe….
Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us..
He is bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, a garment to the naked, healing to the wounded; and whatever a soul can desire is found in Him..
They that know God will be humble. They that know themselves cannot be proud..