It is atheism to pray and not wait on hope..

Providence is the perpetuity and continuance of creation..

It is good to divert our sorrow for other things to the root of all, which is sin. Let our grief run most in that channel, that as sin bred grief, so….

that which is begun in self-confidence will end in shame..

When we shoot an arrow, we look to the fall of it; when we send a ship to sea, we look for its return; and when we sow seed, we look for a harvest; s….

A Christian is the greatest freeman in the world; he is free from the wrath of God, free from hell and damnation, from the curse of the law; but then….

The Christian will desire to see the beauty of God in his house, that his soul might be ravished in the excellency of the object, and that the highes….

If we desire to end our days in joy and comfort, let us lay the foundation of a comfortable death now betimes. To die well is not a thing of that lig….

Sin is not so sweet in the committing as it is heavy and bitter in the reckoning..

God is goodness itself, in whom all goodness is involved. If therefore we love other things for the goodness which we see in them, why do we not lov….

Christ does not choose you because you are good, but to make you good..

It is a destructive addition to add anything to Christ.

Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness..

Those that look to be happy must first look to be holy..

Faith, whereby especially Christ rules, sets the soul so high that it looks down on all other things as far below, as having represented to it, by th….

What the heart liketh best, the mind studieth most..

There is not a minute of time in all of our life but we must either be near to God or we will be undone..

This is a life of faith, for God will try the truth of our faith, so that the world may see that God has such servants as will depend upon His bare w….

A man may be a false prophet and yet speak the truth..

The life of a Christian should be a meditation how to unloose his affection from inferior things. He will easily die that is dead before in affection..

When a man is to travel into a far country...one staff in his hand may comfortably support him, but a bundle of staves would be troublesome. Thus a c….