John Cotton

So soon as ever the heart begins to prize Jesus Christ, as the chiefest of all the blessings that ever God bestowed upon the sons of men; and if the soul think, that had he but his part in Christ, he were the happiest ma…

So far as we are without Christ, we are without life; no Christ, no life. It is with the sons of men in this kind as it was with the soldiers: they were all dead corpses. Truly, that is the case of us all by nature; ever…

Let all the world learn to give mortal men no greater power than they are content they shall use; for use it they will.

First a Christian wades in the rivers of God his grace up to the ankles, with some good frame of spirit; yet but weakly, for a man hath strength in his ankle bones... and yet may have but feeble knees.... So farre as you…