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Those that abide in Christ as their heart's desire shall have, through Christ, their heart's desire.

The better day, the worse deed.

Do nothing till thou hast well considered the end of it.

Nature is content with little; grace with less; but lust with nothing.

Abram was very rich and yet very religious.

for we are by baptism brought into covenant, that we may be taught to observe all things whatsoever Christ has commanded us,

God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.

Esther came to a proud imperious man; we come to the God of love and grace.

Tears of tenderness and affection are no disparagement at all, even to great and wise men.

Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others.

None can know their election but by their conformity to Christ; for all who are chosen are chosen to sanctification.

When we are waiting upon God to bless us, we should stir up ourselves to bless him.

All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first.

The best we can say to God in prayer, is what He has said to us.

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

The wits or wills of men, their inventions or their injunctions, cannot make that to be sin which the law of God has not made to be so.

Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.

Men may die like lambs and yet have their place forever with the goats.

Omissions are sins, and must come into judgment, and particularly the contempt and neglect of the seals of the covenant;

Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people.

All that minister about holy things must have an eye to God's command as their rule and warrant;

Note, It is common for those that are indulgent to their own sin to be severe against the sins of others.

The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints.

Holy joy will be oil to the wheels of our obedience.

Events are not determined by the wheel of fortune, which is blind, but by the wheels of Providence, which are full of eyes

God sends his messengers to those whose hardness and obstinacy he certainly knows and foresees, that it may appear he would have them turn and live.

To a good man, God gives not only wisdom and knowledge, but joy.

Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.

God does not command what cannot be done, but admonishes us to do what is in our power, and to pray for what is not.

Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth.

God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer.

The saints, who are living sacrifices to God, must have salt in themselves, for every sacrifice must be salted with salt (Mark 9:49,

We must first wait for God's law before we catch at his promises.

Those will soon come to make nothing of God that will not be content to make him their all.

We cannot expect too little from man nor too much from God.

Earth is embittered to us, that heaven may be endeared.

The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself; sometimes in the dark, but never at a distance.

Better to get up late and be wide awake then, than to get up early and be asleep all day.

thus God's spiritual Israel shall be kept through the wilderness of this earth, and from the insults of the gates of hell.

The way to forget our miseries, is to remember the God of our mercies.

Not lost, but gone before.

Those who complain most are most to be complained of.

One way or other, God will give redress to the injured, who in a humble silence commit their cause to him;

Grace is the free, undeserved goodness and favor of God to mankind.

Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.

Anger cannot rest in the bosom where love reigns.

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

None are sent empty away from Christ but those who come to him full of themselves.

What peace can they have who are not at peace with God?

As time will not wear out the guilt of sin, so it will not blot out the records of conscience;

Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and half-heartedness of the professors of it.

God warns before he wounds.

Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.

Christ's followers cannot expect better treatment in the world than their Master had.

The word of God is the manna by which our souls are nourished, Matt. 4:4.

To wait on God is to live a life of desire towards him, delight in him, dependence on him, and devotedness to him.

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

it is a great mercy to be reclaimed and called home when we go astray, though it be by a tempest.

The riches we impart are the only wealth we shall always retain.

It is Christ living in the soul by faith that makes the body a living sacrifice,

Blushing is the colour of virtue.

The observance of the laws of Christ cannot be less necessary than the observance of the laws of Moses was.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

Riches are a blessing or a curse to a man according as he has or has not a heart to make good use of them.

It is better to die in the field of honour than to live in the chains of slavery;

All this and heaven too.

For us to err, with the Bible in our hands, is the effect of pride, sloth, and carelessness.

The streams of religion run deep or shallow, according as the banks of the Sabbath are kept up or neglected.

We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season.

To fish in troubled waters.

If God and his grace do not rule us, sin and Satan will have possession of us.

Such is the corruption of nature that the bad are much more likely to debauch the good than the good to reform the bad.

for God's work is its own wages, and there is a present reward of obedience in obedience.

Man takes great pains to heap up riches, and they are like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless they be spread.

Pure Christianity and serious godliness fear not the scrutiny of a free thought, but despise the impotent malice of a prejudiced one.

ThanksGiving is good but ThanksLiving is better.

We should take heed of pride; it is a sin that turned angels into devils.

He will come quickly; let this word be always sounding in our ear,

Those whom God will employ are first struck with a sense of their unworthiness to be employed.

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.

They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts.

God is either your worst enemy or your best friend.

The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.

Death to a good man is his release from the imprisonment of this world, and his departure to the enjoyments of another world.

Note, Religion teaches good manners, and obliges us to give honour to those to whom honour is due.

It is not enough for us to be where God is worshipped, if we do not ourselves worship him.

We must never promise ourselves any more than God has promised us.

I would think it a greater happiness to gain one soul to Christ than mountains of silver and gold to myself.

The prosperity of the soul is the best prosperity, and what we should be most solicitous about for ourselves and others.

Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl.

The treasures of wisdom are hidden not from us, but for us, in Christ.

God is the first and best, and therefore must have the first and best.

As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.

What harrowing is after sowing, the same is meditation after hearing
it hides the word.

For love is of God. He is the fountain, author, parent, and commander of love; it is the sum of his law and gospel:

God's favour is happiness.

The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.

Man's extremity is God's opportunity of helping and saving.

There may be idols in the heart, where there are none in the sanctuary.