Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.
Now the Law not only forbids the doing of evil, whether by thought, word, or deed, but also commands the doing of good.
Consider that no sin against a great God can be strictly a little sin, though compared with a greater one it may be. But however little it is, to account it so makes it greater.
Seek that your last days may be your best days, and so you may die in a good old age, which may be best done when you die good in old age.
There is no reason to be given for grace but grace.
Take notice not only of the mercies of God, but of God in the mercies. Mercies are never so savoury as when they savour of a Saviour.
All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.
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