If thou wouldst exercise thyself to godliness when thou art alone, guard thy heart against vain thoughts; this is the first work to be done, without which all that I have to commend to thee will be in vain. It is to no purpose to expect […]
To lengthen my patience, is the best way to shorten my troubles; and to lessen my patience, is the speediest way to lengthen my pain. I am my own foe if I offer to limit God. He is sure, though, to my depraved flesh, he be […]
The ship that leaks is more easily emptied at the beginning than afterwards; the bird is easily killed in the egg, but when once hatched and fledged, we may kill it when we can catch it. A frequent reckoning with ourselves will pluck sin up before […]
Have you never beheld a condemned prisoner dissolved into tears upon the unexpected and unmerited receipt of a pardon, who all the time before was as hard as a flint? The hammer of the law may break the icy heart of a man with terrors and […]
The infinite and glorious God, though He is so high that He humbled himself to behold things in heaven, and so holy that “the heavens are unclean in His sight” (Job 15:15), is yet so gracious that He condescends to, and converses with, poor sinful dust […]