When we speak to drunkards, worldlings, or any ignorant, unconverted men, we disgrace them as in that condition to the utmost, and lay it on as plain….

Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their minds with tickling levity and affec….

You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to the devil, so that h….

Is it not enough that all the world is against us, but we must also be against one another? O happy days of persecution, which drove us together in l….

Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We know little of ….

Holiness is nothing else but the habitual and predominant devotion and dedication of soul, and body, and life, and all that we have to God; and estee….

Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance..

Keep your children as much as may be from ill company, especially of ungodly playfellows. It is one of the greatest dangers for the undoing of childr….

Keep up your conjugal love in a constant heat and vigor. Love will suppress wrath: you cannot have a bitter mind upon small provocations, against tho….

To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please..

Preach to yourselves the sermons which you study, before you preach them to others..

The devils never had a Savior offered to them, but you have; and do you yet make light of Him?.

Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers..

Take heed to yourselves, lest you perish while you call upon others to take heed of perishing, and lest you famish yourselves while you prepare their….

Surely love is both work and wages..

This is the sanctification of your studies: when they are devoted to God, and when He is the end, the object, and the life of them all..

It is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true christian, and not humble..

And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause, it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasion: for you must consider that you l….

Paganism attributes the creation of the world to blind chance..

If life be long, I will be glad, Tthat I may long obey; If short, yet why should I be sad, To soar to endless day?.

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life..