Birth: 1577 Death: 1635
Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away paradise. Therefore in all temptations consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose..
The whole life of a Christian should be nothing but praises and thanks to God; we should neither eat nor sleep, but eat to God and sleep to God and w….
The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world..
Gospel repentance is not a little hanging down of the head. It's a working of the heart until your sin becomes more odious to you than any punishment….
There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us..
The way to cover our sin is to uncover it by confession..
It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell..
Possibilitas tua mensura tua'(What is possible to you is what you will be measured by)..
See a flame in a spark, a tree in a seed. See great things in little beginnings..
God's children improve all advantages to advance their grand end; they labour to grow better by blessings and crosses, and to make sanctified use of ….
God can pick sense out of a confused prayer..
God knows we have nothing of ourselves, therefore in the covenant of grace he requires no more than he gives, but gives what he requires, and accepts….
Measure not God's love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is no….
A curse lies upon those that, when the truth suffers, have not a word to defend it..
As the strongest faith may be shaken, so the weakest, where truth is, is so far rooted that it will prevail. Weakness with watchfulness will stand, w….
See here, for our comfort, a sweet agreement of all three persons: the Father giveth a commission to Christ; the Spirit furnisheth and sanctifieth to….
What coward would not fight when he is sure of victory?.
The depths of our misery can never fall below the depths of mercy..
If believers decay in their first love, or in some other grace, yet another grace may grow and increase, such as humility, their brokenheartedness; t….
Christ quickens none but the dead. Why do not the papists attain to this grace of justification? They never see themselves wholly dead, but join some….
If Christ has once possessed the affections, there is no dispossessing of him again. A fire in the heart overcomes all fires without..