From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.

If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection will be the effect and attendant of it. But to seek after affection directly and chiefly; to have the heart principally set upon that; is to place it in the room of God and his glory. If it be sought, that others may take notice of it, and admire us for our spirituality and forwardness in religion, it is then damnable pride; if for the sake of feeling the pleasure of being affected, it is then idolatry and self-gratification.

He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.

authorizing and subsidizing religious discrimination.

When you are at your lowest God speaks the loudest.

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