A Sinner Is Not Justified Before God

Resolved, To Examine Carefully, And Constantly, What That One Thing In Me Is, Which Causes Me In The Least To Doubt The Love Of God; And To Direct All My Forces Against It.

When God Is About To Bestow Some Great Blessing On His Church, It Is Often His Manner, In The First Place, So To Order Things In His Providence As To Show His Church Their Great Need Of It, And To Bring Them Into Distress For Want Of It, And So Put Them Upon Crying Earnestly To Him For It.

Resolved, Never To Count That A Prayer, Nor To Let That Pass As A Prayer, Nor That As A Petition Of A Prayer, Which Is So Made, That I Cannot Hope That God Will Answer It; Nor That As A Confession, Which I Cannot Hope God Will Accept.

There Is Nothing That Keeps Wicked Men At Any One Moment Out Of Hell, But The Mere Pleasure Of God

A Truly Christian Love, Either To God Or Men, Is A Humble Broken-hearted Love. The Desires Of The Saints, However Earnest, Are Humble Desires. Their Hope Is A Humble Hope; And Their Joy, Even When It Is Unspeakable And Full Of Glory, Is A Humble Broken-hearted Joy, And Leaves The Christian More Poor In Spirit, And More Like A Little Child, And More Disposed To A Universal Lowliness Of Behaviour.