Occupation: Author Birth: 1617 Death: October 12, 1679
Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves..
Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another..
We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise..
The mightier any is in the word, the more mighty he will be in prayer..
We are justified, not by giving anything to God,--what we do,--but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us..
We must come to good works by faith, and not to faith by good works..
Least doers are the greatest boasters..
In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, ….
We must not confide in the armour of God, but in the God of this armour, because all our weapons are only mighty through God..
Humble souls are fearful of their own strength..
God Himself underwrites your battle and has appointed His own Son 'the captain of your salvation'..
Satan cannot deny but that great wonders have been wrought by prayer. As the spirit of prayer goes up, so his kingdom goes down. Satan's strategems a….
A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in si….
God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill..
Never venture near the door where sin dwells, lest you are dragged in..
Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it i….
Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and you have His royal blood running in your veins unless you can prove your line….
God loves the saints as the purchase of his Son's blood. They cost him dear, and that which is so hardly got shall not be easily lost. He that was wi….
Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the p….
Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart..
The Christian is bred by the Word, and he must be fed by it..