A Minister, Without Boldness, Is Like A

The Christian Is Bred By The Word, And He Must Be Fed By It.

God Is Very Precise In This Point; He Will Say To Such As Invent Ways To Worship Him Of Their Own, Coin Means To Mortify Corruption, Obtain Comfort In Their Own Mint: 'who Hath Required This At Your Hands?' This Is Truly To Be 'righteous Over-much,' As Solomon Speaks, When We Will Pretend To Correct God's Law, And Add Supplements Of Our Own To His Rule.

Let Thy Hope Of Heaven Master Thy Fear Of Death.

How Many, Alas, Of The Precious Saints Of God Must We Shut Out From Being Believers, If There Is No Faith But What Amounts To Assurance.... Shall We Say Their Faith Went Away In The Departure Of Their Assurance?

God, To Prevent All Escape, Hath Sown The Seeds Of Death In Our Very Constitution And Nature, So That We Can As Soon Run From Ourselves, As Run From Death. We Need No Feller To Come With A Hand Of Violence And Hew Us Down; There Is In The Tree A Worm, Which Grows Out Of Its Own Substance, That Will Destroy It; So In Us, Those Infirmities Of Nature That Will Bring Us Down To The Dust.