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 […]
Go down into your hearts and take the keys of them and ransack your private cupboards, and narrowly observe what junkets your souls have until now lived upon, and gone behind the door and there secretly and stoutly have made a meal of them. Delights are […]
Where God is not loved above all, he is not loved at all It is but a false pretense of love to God that any man has who lives in any known sin. There is no love to God where men will not part with one […]
The manner of Christ’s taking away sin doth represent the heinousness of it, and is a sufficient warning to the world not to continue in it: ‘For if these things were done to the green tree, what shall be done to the dry?’ When we look […]
Sin casts contempt on the majesty and greatness of God The language of it is, that he is a despicable being, not worthy to be honoured or feared; not so great, that his displeasure is worthy to be dreaded; and that his threatenings of wrath are […]