If the slothful are to be condemned, that do nothing, much more those that do ill, and contrive to do all the ill they can.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Experience will teach, that men are not made learned or wise without hard study, and unwearied labour and experience.

We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?

In efficacious grace we are not merely passive, nor yet does God do some and we do the rest. But God does all, and we do all. God produces all, we act all. For that is what produces, viz. our own acts. God is the only proper author and fountain; we only are the proper actors. We are in different respects, wholly passive and wholly active.

Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry? Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die? Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand? Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you damned?