"Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God."

"O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections."

"If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you; but the love of your souls constrains me to speak: methinks this would constrain me to speak unto you forever."

"Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ."

"When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose he means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child."

"This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil."

"For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image."

"And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you; Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation; and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto you?"

"Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death."

"You see, my brethren, my heart is full; I could almost say it is too big to speak, and yet too big to be silent, without dropping a word to you."

"No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion."

"But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus."

"It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher."

"To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers."

"The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature, was, the fall of our first parents."

"Let us, therefore, not be weary of well-doing; for we shall reap an eternal harvest of comfort, if we faint not."

"Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you."

"We are immortal until our work on earth is done."

"O my brethren, my heart is enlarge towards you. I trust I feel something of that hidden, but powerful presence of Christ, whilst I am preaching to you."

"As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased."

"For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus."

"It is very remarkable, that in the book of life, we find some almost of all kinds of occupations, who notwithstanding served God in their respective generations, and shone as so many lights in the world."

"Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches."

"The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so."

"The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall."

"Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?"

"Thus was the King and the Lord of glory judged by man's judgment, when manifest in flesh: far be it from any of his ministers to expect better treatment."

"Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies."

"The Judge is before the door: he that cometh will come, and will not tarry: his reward is with him."

"Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least."

"At the day of judgment we shall all meet again."