OF REPENTANCE AND COMING TO CHRIST.
The end of affliction is the discovery of sin; and of that to bring us to the Saviour; let us therefore, with the prodigal, return unto him, and we shall find ease and rest.
A returning penitent, though formerly bad as the worst of men, may by grace become as good as the best.
To be truly sensible of sin, is to sorrow for displeasing of God: to be afflicted, that he is displeased by us more than that he is displeased with us.
Your intentions to repentance, and the neglect of that soul-saving duty, will rise up in judgment against you.
Repentance carries with it a divine rhetoric, and persuades Christ to forgive multitudes of sins committed against him.
Say not to thyself, to-morrow I will repent; for it is thy duty to do it daily.
The gospel of grace and salvation is above all doctrine the most dangerous, if it be received in word only by graceless men; if it be not attended with a sensible need of a Saviour, and bring them to him; for such men only as have the notion of it, are of all men most miserable; for by reason of their knowing more than heathens, this shall only be their final portion, that they shall have greater stripes.