1. It is all the gift of the sun, that the grass is of that refreshing green, and all the rivers are lines of waving blue. It is all the gift of the sun, that the flowers are tinged with their thousand glories; that the petal of the rose has its delicate blush, and the lily, that neither toils nor spins, has a brightness greater than Solomon's. Now, this is the way you may be justified. You are dark and vile in yourselves, but Christ's glory shall be seen in you.
2. Amazing love, that calls you to a feast (Prov. ix.i-6), and not to hell!
3. When you lift up your eyes in hell, or when Jesus comes, you will cry, I Lord, Lord; but all diligence will then be too late. When the boat has left the shore, it is vain for you to run.
4. The way of salvation, by Jehovah our Righteousness, was sweet to Paul. His soul rested here with great delight. He came thus to God in secret, thus in public, thus in dying.
5. For every sin of yours, here is a stripe in Jesus. For the sins of infancy, here are the sufferings of His infancy; for the sins of youth, here are the sufferings of His youth; for the sins of manhood, here are the sufferings of His manhood.
6. His obedience is divine obedience. For your unholy life, here is His divinely holy life to cover you. Here are His holy thoughts to cover your unholy thoughts; here are His holy words to cover your unholy words; here are His holy actions to cover your unholy actions. There is something infinitely vast and glorious in the righteousness of God.
7. If Christ was sufficient for one sinner, then He must be sufficient for all. The great difficulty with God was, not how to admit many sinners into His favour, but how to admit one sinner. If that difficulty has been got over, then the whole has been got over.
8. I know that, if any of you have tasted the sweetness of Christ, you would be content to abide in Him for an eternity.
9. God's anger is like a river dammed up. It is getting higher and higher, fuller and deeper, every day.
10. Little children, if you would take Jesus for a Saviour, then you might carry all your griefs to Him; for Jesus knows what it is to be a little child.
11. God has an infinite sense of justice. His eyes behold the things that are equal. Now, when He sees the blood of His Son sprinkled on any soul, He sees that justice has had its full satisfaction in that soul; that man's sins have been more fully punished than if he had borne them himself eternally.
12. If the word concerning Christ does not break your heart, it will make it as the nether millstone.
13. You will be incomplete Christians, if you do not look for the coming again of the Lord Jesus.
14. Soon we shall see Him as He is; then our trials shall be done. We shall reign with Him, and be entirely like Him. The angels will know us, by our very faces, to be brothers and sisters of Jesus.
15. Without him we may give you a knowledge of the dreadfulness of your condition, but he only can give you a just sense and feeling of the dreadfulness of your condition. The most powerful sermon in the world can make nothing more than a natural impression; but when God works through it, the feeblest word makes a supernatural impression.