The sufferings of Christ are exceedingly powerful, to melt believers’ hearts into godly sorrow.
Where divine love possesseth the soul, it stands as centinel to keep out every thing that may offend the Beloved.
There can be no treaty of peace, till once we lay down those weapons of rebellion wherewith we fight against heaven; nor can we expect to have our distempers cured, if we be daily feeding on poison.
The stronger the affections, the better the man acteth, with greater strength and vivacity; for they are the vigorous motions of the will.
Oh, pity for evermore, that there should be such a one as Christ Jesus, so boundless, so bottomless, and so incomparable in infinite excellency and sweetness, and so few to take Him! Oh, oh, ye poor, dry, and dead souls, why will ye not come hither […]