Where the watchman is blind, the city is soon taken.
Grace is too much neglected where gifts are too highly prized.
God useth sometimes a thorn in the flesh to prick the bladder of pride.
What we have from God, we cannot keep without God.
He that abandons the truth of God renounceth the God of Truth.
Sincerity makes the Christian sing when he has nothing for his supper.
Thieves spend their money as ill as they get it and so do hypocrites their stolen comforts.
Great gifts are beautiful as Rachel, but pride makes them barren as her.
That flower from which the bee sucks honey, the spider draws poison.
If God loves a child, He will bring him back to the Word with shame and sorrow.
David did not pray himself strong, but God strengthened him in his prayers.
Thou temptest God to suffer thy lock to be cut when thou art so bold as to lay thy head in the lap of temptation.
When the last handful of meal was dressing then was the prophet sent to keep the widow’s house.
He that cannot see his enemy, how can he ward off the blow he sends.
True grace when weakest is stronger than false when strongest.
The unwise walking of one professor makes others far the worse.
The best wits are not always the greatest scholars.
Few are made better by prosperity whom afflictions make worse.
Providence has a voice, if we had an ear.
Good works and gracious actions have their life from faith, yet are necessary to preserve the life of faith.
You will hardly join hearts in a duty, that cannot join hands in love.
God sets the Christian to work and then meets him in it.
When the hem is worn, the whole garment will ravel out, if it be not mended by timely repentance.
We must believe before we can know we are elected, yea, by believing we know it.