
Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.

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.

We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise.

There is no such way to be even with the devil and his instruments, for all their spite against us, as by doing what good we can wherever we be come.

Weak faith will as surely land the Christian in heaven as strong faith, for it is impossible the least dram of true grace should perish

God brings his grace into the heart by conquest.

He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.

The storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary.

Pride of gifts robs us of God's blessing in the use of them.

Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan's landing places, especially the eye and the ear.

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.

As you love your peace, Christian, be plain-hearted with God and man, and keep the king's highway.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

Christian, hath not God secretly instructed thee by his Spirit from the Word, how to read the shorthand of his providence? Dost

For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.

The mightier any is in the word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.

It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.

The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.

Thou hast no life to lose, because thou hast given it already to Christ, nor can man take away that without God's leave.

Can Christ be in thou heart and thou not know it? Can one king be dethroned and another crowned in thy soul and thou hear no scuffle?

We must come to good works by faith, and not to faith by good works.

Men are what they see and judge; though some do not fill up their light, yet none go beyond it.

Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death.

The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.

And they cannot be solid Christians, that are not instructed in the grounds of Christianity. The

The Christian, like a chalice without a base, cannot stand on his own nor hold what he has received any longer that God holds him in His strong hands.

O how true are poor sinners to the devil's trust!

The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.

We are justified, not by giving anything to God,
what we do,
but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

It is the image of God reflected in you that so enrages hell; it is this at which the demons hurl their mightiest weapons.

To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.

Whoever hath a seed time of grace pass over his soul, shall have his harvest time also of joy.

Were there no devil, yet we should have our hands full, in resisting the corruptions of our own hearts; but

Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.

the Christian who seems to be so overmatched, is yet so unconquerable, II Cor. 12:9; James 5:11.

We are bid to take, not to make our cross.

The state of unregeneracy is a state of impotency.

one affirmative from God's mouth for thy pardoned state, carries more weight, though of old date, than a thousand negatives from Satan's. David's

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.

As Christ had his saints in Nero's court, so the devil his servants in the outward court of his visible church. Thou

God Himself underwrites your battle and has appointed His own Son 'the captain of your salvation'.

CEASE to PRAY and thou will BEGIN to SIN.

The Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his holy constancy in the truth.

Thou art translated into the kingdom of Christ, but thou art a great way from his court. That

One Almighty is more than all mighties

Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.

Christ is a prince that loves to see his people thrive and grow rich under his government. This

He that loves the Word and the purity of its precepts cannot turn traitor.

Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.