Watson on God's Diocese

Conscience is God's diocese, where none has right to visit, but He who is the Bishop of our souls (1 Peter 2:25). We must not be like hot iron, which may be beaten into any form. A brave spirited Christian will rather suffer, than let his conscience be violated.
Thomas Watson, All Things For Good 8:3

Living and Trading Above

“As birds that light upon the ground to pick up a little seed, immediately fly up to heaven again; so the redeemed of the Lord use the world, and take the lawful comforts of it, but their hearts are presently off these things, and they ascend to heaven. They live here, and trade above.”
Thomas Watson, A Body of Divinity IV.8