The New-Englanders are a People of God settled in those, which were once the Devil’s Territories; and it may easily be supposed that the Devil was exceedingly disturbed, when he perceived such a People here accomplishing the Promise of old made unto our Blessed Jesus, That He should have the Utmost parts of the Earth for his Possession.

Wrestle with the Lord. Receive no denial. Earnestly protest, Lord, I will not let thee go, except thou bless this poor child of mine, and make it your own! Do this, until, if it may be, your heart is raised by a touch of heaven, to a particular faith; that God has blessed this child, and it shall be blessed and saved forever.

If we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments used among the ancient Jews? – yea, dancing as well as playing, and several other Judaic actions? or, how can we decline a whole rabble of church-officers, necessary to be introduced for instrumental musick, whereof our Lord Jesus Christ hath left us no manner of direction?

A Good School deserves to be call’d, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.

Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker’s praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about.

The Spirit of Slumber which the Poison of the old Serpent has brought upon the children of Men is to be deplored exceedingly.

That there is a Devil is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influence of the Devil. For any to deny the being of a Devil must be from ignorance or profaneness worse than diabolical.

Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.

The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you.

Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.