All our good is more apparently from God, because we are first naked and wholly without any good, and afterwards enrich with all good.

Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness.

The ingenerating of a principle of grace in the soul seems in Scripture to be compared to the conceiving of Christ in the womb... And the conception of Christ in the womb of the blessed virgin by the power of the Holy Ghost, seems to be a designed resemblance of the conception of Christ in the soul of a believer by the power of the same Holy Ghost.

The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses though now broken, will nevertheless hold something of the fragrance it once contained.

So then, let "Deserved" be written on the door of hell, but on the door of Heaven and life, "The free gift" (68).

Every moment thou waitest does but increase thy misery; thine attempts to plume thyself and make thyself fit for Jesus are all vanity.