“ I have found hazards, reproaches, contempts, weariness, cold, night-wandrings, stormy tempests and deserts so desirable, that it is a greater difficulty to me, not to be ambitious of these things, than to submit unto to them. O rejoice in the cross, for it is all paved with love! the fewer that will bear it, it is your greater honour to be friends to it: Follow Christ with the cross upon your backs, and set none else before you, as your leader; for man is a poor, fallible ”

“ In him we live, in him we move, and of him we have our being. Do not all the pieces of the creation, heaven, earth and sea, sun, moon, and stars, the commonest and unworthiest creature that moveth upon the earth, bear large characters of his wisdom, power and goodness? Doth not his mysterious common providence, making the sharpest sighted of his creatures hid their faces, and become silent before him; declare him to be God ”

“ The immensurableness and freedom of the grace of Christ, the boundlesness of his power, and infiniteness of his love, is such a bottomless deep of joyful wonder, wherein these, who are made perfect, are everlastingly drowned. ”

“ Love is a resolute soldier for him, love is a valiant champion in his lists; love despiseth, yea, (I may say) wisheth for difficulties, to get it self shown Love sees not a spot upon all the cross; love gets never a bitter cup put into his hand, but the beloved's frowns; it thinks not his cross bitter, but reads delightsomeness engraven upon it; love will rejoice to cross the natural parts of the will to please Christ, love will not stand to venture upon the swellings of Jordan with him and for him; the heaps of great waters are nothing in love's eye ”

“ So that man, however unworthy, base, sinful and miserable, yet is the center of his love. O how powerful is he! he is mighty to save, able to save to the uttermost; all the strong holds of the soul cannot hold out against him; his power is irresitable; by this he can do what he will; and by his love he will do what we need: And again, he is so faithful, that what he saith he doth: He will not retract one promise that is gone out of his mouth; neither will he fail in fulfilling all his threatnings. ”

“ I think no christian ought now to be secure; the man of sin is plotting and strengthning his force what he can, and he will not be content with a part of Christ's kingdom; his aim is at all; he stirs himself now so fast in his saddle, that I think, it is not long to his fall: However, many lands may look for strange plagues, tho' Britain and Ireland shall be made the center of God's judgements; yet his indignation shall not be contained within these limits. O judgements! sudden and sore wasted judgements are coming on Britain and Ireland. ”

“ Others think that they have a love to him, but their desires are after that which is his, and not after himself; they desire liberation from the guilt and punishment of sin, and a Possession of a heaven, which they build up to themselves in their brain; but they care not tho' there were no such a thing as the Christ. O! what a spurious love is this? Can any in reason think, but a suiter, whom a maid condescended to match with, only upon the account of his estate, without regard of his person, had good ground to refuse such base and spurious love? ”

“ O! right honourable and dear friends, are ye not longing for the full enjoyment of him, looking out for the breaking of the day, and the flying away of the shadows, that ye may no more see him darkly as through a glass, but may behold him as he is, and enjoy him perfectly and constantly? ”

“ Let man look through heaven and earth, and seek a portion where he will, he shall not find the like of Christ. O then! let us be altogether his and nothing our own. Our time let it be his, our understanding and will let them be his, our affections let them be his, the travel of our souls let it be his, our strengths let it be his, our names, lives, and enjoyments let them all be his ”

“ He became flesh of our flesh, and bone of our bone, and that in the lowly condition of a servant; he suites the creatures affection, as if it were of some worth, and seeks men and women to match with him; O how loving is he? it is strong love that he beareth to that feed of Abraham: Doth not this shine in all that he hath done? He emptied himself that they might become full; he made himself poor, tho' maker and possessor of heaven and earth, that they might become rich ”

“ O take a look of him in his perfections; he is without measure and limits, without beginning and ending; he is one and the same in his nature, in his counsels, and in his love; he perfectly knoweth himself; and all things that are possible, he can do all things which do not imply a contradiction, and argue imperfection: He is good and doth good; he is righteous in himself, and equal in all his ways of dealing with his creatures; he is true without any dissimulation ”

“ I say again, be well resolved against what man can do unto you: For, there are no more Christians than there are Martyrs in resolution and affection: The kingdom of heaven must be taken by violence, and the violent take it by force; and the more and greater difficulties be in the way, a right fight of the kingdom makes the way the more pleasant. ”

“ Commit your cause unto the Lord, for judgment and righteouness shall yet meet together again upon earth: He is interested in his own work, and therefore he can neither forget it nor forsake it: And, such as wait for him shall never be put to shame. ”

“ Each of us have as much of the fun, as we would have, tho' there were no others on the earth to partake with us; so is the enjoyment of that blessed Son of righteouness to all his chosen, each of them hath him all. ”

“ I bless the Lord who hath given you zeal for himself, and hath helped you to stand with a poor despised party in many stours for his interest. I commend you to him, that he may make his rich grace more and more abound in you, that he may perfect what concerns you, and make you persevere unto the end, and himself be your exceeding rich reward. ”

“ I thank God on your behalf, that your zeal is heard of in many places. Ye have become companions with us in our afflictions; your sympathy with this persecuted party is evident to us all, and we hear that we have a great Room in your prayers; man cannot repay your kindness to us, but I know you look not to man in it, doing it out of love to the Lord ”

“ There is no rational creature, which doth not set some one thing or other before its eyes, as its main end and chief good; and according to the various predominants in sensual and mad-men, are their various main ends. ”

“ Ye must not be soon angry, neither upon real, nor conceived cause of provocation. (4) Ye must not be strikers nor brawlers, nor given to quarreling and contentions. (5) You must not be self-willed, adhering pertinaciously, and without reason, to your own judgments, and refusing to hearken to the judgment of your brethren, tho' sound and wholesome. (6) Ye must not be novices, or such as are newly come to the faith, lest ye be puffed up with pride, and fall into the condemnation of the devil: The spirits of novices are not yet well ballasted, nor brought low by frequent exercises of the Cross ”

“ Hence it is that there did result so many different opinions among heathen philosophers, about man's chief good. But, here is the great mistake with foolish, vain men, that what ever they seek after it is but few, who do bend toward the true chief good, which is God. ”

“ Tho' ye have your own share of the revilings of this time, yet be not reproached into reproachers; Though the sowerness of others grieve you, yet let it aot infect you; but let zeal be accompanied with meekness, that ye may be free of passion and prejudice; and let meekness be backed with zeal, that ye may be free of luke-warmness and indifferency: Let meekness be extended toward all persons, and zeal against all sins: And as ye would not lose your ground, be positive against sin in the first proposal and motion thereof ”

“ For, a man under such various exigencies of providences, as I am, cannot be master of his own purposes. And beside, that I am daily looking out; either to be presently killed, where I may be found, or else draged into a prison or scaffold. ”

“ He is infinite in all his attributes; and every perfection hath a perfect meeting in him: Albeit some of his attributes be in some degree communicable to his creatures, yet they are all in him, in an altogether incommunicable manner and measure; and there is nothing in God but what is God ”