There is sufficiency of merit in Christ to save a thousand times as
many more as are like to be saved by him.

No man needs at all to go about to come at life and peace and rest:
let him come directly from sin to grace, from Satan to Jesus Christ.

The cross, it stands and hath stood from the beginning as a way-mark
to the kingdom of heaven. Art thou inquiring the way to heaven? Why,
I tell thee Christ is the way; into him thou must get, into his
righteousness to be justified; and if thou art in him, thou wilt
presently see the cross: thou must go close by it, thou must touch
it, nay, thou must take it up, or else thou wilt quickly go out of
the way that leads to heaven, and turn up some of those crooked
lanes that lead down to the chambers of death.

Many there be that begin with grace and end with works, and think
that is the only way. Indeed, works will save from temporal
punishments, when their imperfections are purged from them by the
intercession of Christ; but to be saved and brought to glory, to be
carried through this dangerous world from my first moving after
Christ until I set foot within the gates of paradise, this is the
work of my Mediator, of my High-priest and Intercessor. It is he
that fetches us again when we are run away; it is he that lifts us
up when the devil and sin have thrown us down; it is he that
quickens us when we grow cold; it is he that comforts us when we
despair; it is he that obtains fresh pardon when we have contracted
sin, and that purges our consciences when they are laden with guilt.
I know that rewards do wait for them in heaven, that believe in
Christ, and shall do well on earth; but this is not a reward of