God's mercy is free. To set up merit is to destroy mercy; nothing can deserve mercy, because we are polluted in our blood; nor force it; we may force God to punish us, not to love us, Hos. xiv. 4, "I will love them freel…

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To sin because mercy abounds, is the devil's logic. He that sins because of mercy is like one that wounds his head because he hath a plaster; he that sins because of God's mercy, shall have judgment without mercy. Mercy…
Assurance is like the mariner's lantern on the deck, which gives light in a dark night. Assurance gives the light of comfort in affliction. He that hath assurance, can rejoice in tribulation; he can gather grapes of thor…
Hell is a place of pure justice. In this life, God in anger remembers mercy; he mixeth compassion with suffering. Asher's shoe was of iron, but his foot was dipt in oil. Affliction is the iron shoe, but mercy is mixed wi…
Weeds grow of themselves. Flowers are planted. Sanctification is a flower of the Spirit's planting, therefore it is called, "The sanctification of the Spirit," 1 Pet. i. 2.
Sin is an unclean thing, it is hyperbolically evil.
Read the Bible with reverence. Think in every line you read that God is speaking to you.
God is an unmixed good. There is no condition in this life but has its mixture; for every drop of honey hath its gall.
God is the summum bonum, the chief good; therefore the enjoyment of him is the highest felicity.
Knowledge of fundamentals is the golden key that opens the chief mysteries of religion; it gives us a whole system and body of divinity, exactly drawn in all its lineaments and lively colours.
Glorifying God has respect to all the persons in the Trinity; it respects God the Father who gave us life; God the Son, who lost his life for us; and God the Holy Ghost, who produces a new life in us; we must bring glory…
Three wishes Paul had, and they were all about Christ; that he might be found in Christ, be with Christ, and magnify Christ.