The first and great work of a Christian is about his heart. There it is that God dwells by his Spirit, in his saints; and there it is that sin and Satan reign, in the ungodly. The great duties and the great sins are those of […]
It is a most lamentable thing to see how most men do spend their care, their time, their pains, for known vanities, while God and glory are cast aside That He who is all should seem to them as nothing, and that which is nothing should […]
From the greatness and immensity of God… Your soul must reverently stay all its busy, bold inquiries, and know that God is to us, and to every creature, incomprehensible. If you could fathom or measure Him, and know His greatness by a comprehensive knowledge, He were […]
Converse much with them that live by faith, and fetch their motives and comforts from the things unseen To converse with them that live all by sense, and shew no other desires, or joys, or sorrows, but what are fetched from fleshly sensible things, is a […]
“And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works” This life of love is the true improvement of all God’s doctrines, ordinances, mercies, afflictions, and other providences whatsoever! For the use of them all is to lead us up to […]