Birth: 1628 Death: 1680
Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience is God's eye, mercy is God's delight, eternity is God's duration, but holiness is God's beauty!.
Assurance is the fruit that grows out of the root of faith..
Our ignorance of God is too great, because our estimations of God are too little..
In regard of God, patience is a submission to His sovereignty. To endure a trial, simply because we cannot avoid or resist it, is not Christian patie….
Let us look upon a crucified Christ, the remedy of all our miseries. His cross hath procured a crown, his passion hath expiated our transgression. Hi….
We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us..
God knows all that is done in the most secret caverns of the heart. No place is deprived of his presence..
Paul was so much taken with Christ, that nothing sweeter than Jesus could drop from his lips and pen..
Frequently renew settled and holy resolutions. A soldier unresolved to fight may be easily defeated...The weakness of our graces, the strength of our….
Without the heart it’s not worship, it’s a stage play..
Without the heart it is no worship; it is a stage play; an acting a part without being that person really which is acted by us: a hypocrite, in the n….
Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons..
God doth not govern the world only by his will as an absolute monarch, but by his wisdom and goodness as a tender father. It is not his greatest plea….
How comfortable it is to have One, day and night, before the throne to control the charge of our enemy, and the despondencies of our souls..
Pride is self contending with God for preeminence..
Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else..
How worthy it is to remember former benefits when we come to beg for new..
We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity..
Since nothing but God is eternal, nothing but God is worth the loving..
When we believe that we should be satisfied rather than God glorified in our worship, then we put God below ourselves as though He had been made for ….
The little time that remains between this moment and our death, should quicken our diligence to inherit the endless and unchangeable eternity of God..