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I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.

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As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99).

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Woe to the soul which God rejoiceth to punish! . . . . Is it not a terrible thing to a wretched soul, when it shal lie roaring perpetually in the flam...more

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Either paganish unbelief of the truth of that eternal blessedness, and of the truth of the Scripture which doth promise it to us; or, at least, a doub...more

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Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279).

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Why dost thou not see that on earth they desires fly from thee? Art thou a not as a child that thinketh to travel to the sun, when he seeth it rising ...more

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When shall I be past these soul-tormenting fears, and cares, and griefs, and passions? When shall I be out of this frail, this corruptible, ruinous bo...more

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When the world is worth nothing, then heaven is worth something. I leave every Christian to judge by his own experience, whether we do not overlove th...more

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What if you had seen haven open as Stephen did, and all the saints there triumphing in glory, and enjoying the end of their labours and sufferings, wh...more

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Though every man naturally abhorreth sorrow, and loves the most merry and joyful life; yet few do love the way to joy, or will endure the pains by whi...more

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The door of the visible church is incomparably wider than the door of heaven (522)[.]

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The strongest Christian is unsafe among occasions to sin (519).

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I am persuaded our discontents, and murmurings with out unpleasing condition, and our covetous desires after more, are not so provoking to God, nor so...more

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Till thou hast learned to suffer from a saint a well as from the wicked, and to be abused by the godly as well as the ungodly, never look to live a co...more