....his ( John Ryland's) zeal like a fiery horse has often run away and dragged his judgement after it hanging by one foot in the stirrup.- Wise Counsel: John Newton's Letters to John Ryland, Jr. edied by Grant Gordon, Letter 33 p164-

This day baptised a poor journeyman shoemaker. - Journal of John Ryland Jnr., 5 Oct 1783, in Wise Counsel: John Newton's Letters to John Ryland, Jr. edied by Grant Gordon, Letter 33 p157 ( later Newton called this shoemaker, William Carey, an Apostle.)

To talk of anyone being Elect when they are living in sin, is nothing better than blasphemous folly. The Bible knows of no Election except through "sanctification;" no eternal choosing except that we should be "holy;" no predestination except to be "conformed to the image of God's Son." When these things are lacking, it is mere waste of time to talk of Election. (1 Pet. 1:2; Eph. 1:4; Rom. 8:29

~ J.C. Ryle,

Old Paths, “Election”, [Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1999], 470.

When we believe that we should be satisfied rather than God glorified in our worship, then we put God below ourselves as though He had been made for us rather than that we had been made for Him.-Stephen Charnock

The concept of "name" has to do with person, character, nature, essence, who someone is. Therefore, we are not to take God, in the fullness of who He is, and treat Him in a vain way, or an empty, irreverent, impious, insincere, phony, fraudulent manner. Not taking the Lord’s name in vain, then, is not limited to cursing or something like that, but it means to treat God with irreverence, superficiality, insincerity or phoniness, or to bring to God empty worship, hypocritical worship or honor. Someone has said frankly that God’s name is taken in vain more often in the church than outside of it, where people come and offer empty worship with their needless repetition, empty praise-words, singing without thought of God, praying with indifference, hearing the Word and never applying it – all of this is empty worship, phony, hypocritical. Such worship is damnable, condemned in the Word of God.
- John MacArthur, Confusing Man's Traditions with God's Commandments, Part 1 – Matthew 14:34-15:9.