• When the sun is gone all the candles in the world cannot make it day.
• Sin is a ill guest, for it always sets its lodging on fire.
• To fix our confidence upon a dying world is folly. It is as if we were building our nests when the tree is being cut down, or decorating our cabin when the ship is likely to be dashed to pieces or already sinking.
• The best of God’s people have abhorred themselves. Like the spire of a steeple (the higher it rises toward heaven the smaller it becomes) we are least at the highest. David, a king, was yet like a weaned child.
• God will open the sinner’s eyes in the next world, not by a holy illumination, but by a forced conviction. ‘Be sure your sin will find you out.’ We forget it now, and think we shall never hear of it more; but God can make all occur to memory as fresh as if newly committed, and in an instant represent the story of an ill-spent life, and show us all the thoughts, words, and actions that ever we have been guilty of. The paper goeth white into the printing house; but within one instant it is marked within and without, and cometh forth stamped with words, and lines, and sentences, which were in no way legible there before, even so will it be with the soul when conscience is aroused at the last.
• A wolf doth not worry a painted sheep, nor does the world annoy a mere professor. But when any are holy indeed, and of a strict innocency, they are hated, and contradicted, and spoken against.
• Sometimes God letteth his people alone till their latter days, and their season of fighting cometh not till they are ready to go out of the world, that they may die fighting and be crowned in the field. But first or last the cross cometh, and there is a time to exercise faith and patience before we inherit the promises.

Pastor Thomas Manton 1620-1677

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