If thy hope be any thing worth, it will purify thee from thy sins. - Joseph Alleine

The Lord Jesus Christ would have the whole world to know, that though He pardons sin, He will not protect it.

While we keep aloof in general statements, there is little fruit to be expected; it is the hand-fight that does execution.

A man may as certainly miscarry by his seeming righteousness and supposed graces, as by gross sins; and that is, when a man doth trust in these as his righteousness before God, for the satisfying His justice, appeasing His wrath, procuring His favor, and obtaining his own pardon.