His Will
His will s the rule of righteousness, and righteousness is the rule of His will. [Elisha Coles]
Posted April 30, 2008@13:16 by Deejay
The Love of Christ
If you lay yourself at Christ's feet He will take you into His arms. [William Bridge]
Posted April 30, 2008@00:34 by Deejay
The Law and the Gospel
Be as holy as you can, as if there were no Gospel to save you. Yet when you are as holy as you can, you must believe in Christ as if there were no law to condemn you. [Thomas Lye]
Posted April 29, 2008@17:24 by Deejay
The only perfect Truth
These words are God's Words. Thou book of vast authority; thou art a proclamation from the emperor of Heaven. Far be it from me, to exercise my reason in contradicting Thee. This is the book untainted by error, it is pure unalloyed perfect truth. Why? Because God wrote it. [Charles H. Spurgeon]
Posted April 28, 2008@23:41 by Deejay
Doctrine is a not an affair of the tongue only
When the heart is cast into the mould of the doctrine, that the mind embraceth, when the evidence, and neccessity of the truth abides in us; when not the sense of the words only, in our heads, but the sense of a thing abides in our hearts; when we have communion with God,in the doctrine we contend for, then we shall be garrisoned by the grace of God against all the assaults of men [John Owen]
Posted April 28, 2008@11:49 by Deejay
News may come that Truth is sick, but never that it is dead. [William Gurnall]
Posted April 27, 2008@23:07 by Deejay
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Go down into your hearts and take the key and ransack your private cupboards, and narrowly observe what junkets your souls have hitherto lived upon, and gone behind the door and there secretly and stoutly made a meal of them. As dogs have bones they hide and secretly steal forth to gnaw upon, so men have sins they hide under their tongues as sweet bits. [Thomas Goodwin]
Posted April 27, 2008@14:50 by Deejay
The heavens decleare the Glory of the Lord
It is evident a man may as well doubt whether there be a sun, when he sees his beams gliding the earth as doubt whether there be a God, when he sees His works spread in the world. [Stephen Charnock]
Posted April 26, 2008@15:27 by Deejay
Why some men are damned
For no man is damned precisely because God hath not chosen him, because he is not elected, but because he is a sinner, and doth willfully refuse the means of grace offered. [Anthony Burgess]
Posted April 26, 2008@00:07 by Deejay
Sincerity means battling against sin in private too.
Sometimes, indeed, there appears a scuffle between Satan and a carnal heart; but it is a mere cheat, like the fighting of two fencers on a stage. You would think at first they were in earnest; but observing how wary they are when they hit one another, you may soon know they do not mean to kill: and that which pulls all out of doubt when the guise is done, you shall see them making merry together with what they have got of their spectators, which was all they fought for. When a carnal heart makes the greatest bustle against sin, by complaining of it, or praying against it, follow him but off the stage of duty and you shall se them sit as friendly in a corner as ever. [William Gurnall]
Posted April 25, 2008@01:00 by Deejay
We cannot give an unknown God, His Due.
We must first believe that he is, and that he is what he declares himself to be, before we can seek him, adore him, and devote our affections to him. We cannot pay God a due and regular homage, unless we understand him in his perfections, what he is; and we can pay him no homage at all, unless we believe that he is. [Stephen Charnock]
Posted April 24, 2008@16:16 by Deejay
Secret Sin
(Some) though they cannot sin outwardly, for want of strength of body or a fit opportunity, yet they act sin inwardly with great love and complacency. As players in a comedy, they act their parts in private, in order to a more exact performance of them in public. [George Swinnock]
Posted April 24, 2008@00:24 by Deejay
The Best Portion
It is better to be as low as hell with a promise, than in Paradise without one. [John Flavel]
Posted April 22, 2008@22:33 by Deejay
|On Being a friend of God.
Pray in prosperity, that thou mayest speed when thou prayest in adversity; own God now, that He may acknowledge thee then. Shall that friend be welcome to us, that never gives us a visit, but when he comes to borrow? This is a right beggars trick, but not a friend's part. [William Gurnall]
Posted April 22, 2008@08:45 by Deejay
The faithfulness of God
Promises, though they be for a time seemingly delayed, cannot be finally frustrated...the heart of God is not turned though His face be hid; and prayers are not flung back, though they be not instantly answered. [Timothy Cruso]
Posted April 21, 2008@17:08 by Deejay
Change
Repentance is a change of the mind, and regeneration is a change of the man. [Thomas Adams]
Posted April 21, 2008@01:52 am by Deejay
Man-The idol of his own heart naturally
Every man is naturally an idolater...pleasure, profit, and honor are the natural man's trinity...thus we are naturally our own idols...This is the reason why affliction so frequently concurs in the work of conversion. [Richard Baxter ]
Posted April 13, 2008@22:43 by Deejay
Rebellion
A sin of infirmity may admit apology; a sin of ignorance may find out excuse; but a sin of defiance can find no defense. [Sir Richard Baker]
Posted April 20, 2008@15:47 am by Deejay
If therefore, in doubtful cases, you would discover God's will, govern yourselves in your search after it by these rules:
- Get the true fear of God upon your hearts; be really afraid of offending Him.
- Study the Word more, and the concern and interests of the world less.
- Reduce what you know into practice, and you shall know what is your duty to practice.
- Pray for illumination and direction in the way that you should go.
- And this being done, follow Providence as far as it agrees with the Word and no farther. [John Flavel]
Posted April 19, 2008@22:20 am by Deejay
I will never join with them that will have but one Form in Christ's school. I would have the ABC there taught as well as the profoundest mysteries. 'Tis no sign of the family of God to have no children in it, but strong men only; nor of the hospital of Christ, to have none sick; nor of His net to have no fish but good; nor of His field, to have no tares; flesh and blood hath ticed me oft to separatoin and ease; but it's too easy a way to be of God. [Richard Baxter]
Posted April 19, 2008@02:55 am by Deejay
Temptation
Satan can never undo a man without himself; but a man may easily undo himself without Satan. [Thomas Brooks]
Posted April 17, 2008@08:39 by Deejay
Picture of a godly man
For every sanctified man being a self-denying and a God advancing man, his God is his center. [Simeon Ash]
Posted April 16, 2008@22:42 by Deejay
To forsake Christ for the world, is to leave a treasure for a trifle...eternity for a moment, reality for a shadow. [William Jenkyn]
Posted April 16, 2008@17:01 by Deejay
When the fire is stirred up and discovered it giveth more heat than when it is not, so the Word of God by preaching and interpreting maketh a greater flame in the hearers than when it is read. [Thomas Cartwright]
Posted April 15, 2008@23:44 by Deejay
The world does not know, nor is able to make a right judgment of believers...Their infirmities are visible to all--their graces invisible; the King's daughter is glorious within. [John Owen]
Posted April 15, 2008@01:10 by Deejay
A pleasing offering.
Lord, if I have done iniquity, I am resolved through thy grace to do so no more. I flee for shelter to the blood of Jesus and his everlasting righteousness; for this is pleasing unto thee; I offer myself up, soul and body, unto God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. I offer myself unto Christ the Lord, as an object proper for all his offices to be exercised upon. I choose him as my prophet for instruction, illumination and direction. I embrace him as my great priest, to be washed and justified by his blood and righteousness. I embrace him as my king to reign and rule within me. I take a whole Christ with all his laws, and all his crosses and afflictions. I will live to him; I will die to him; I will quit with all I have in the world for his cause and truth. [Ebenezer Erskine]
Posted April 13, 2008@13:43 by Deejay
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To plead Christ's merits in prayer, and not by the Spirit, is to bring right incense but strange fire, and so our prayers are but smoke, offensive to His pure eyes, not incense, a sweet savour to His nostrils. [William Gurnall]
Posted April 13, 2008@00:02 by Deejay
Especially look to those sins to which your crosses have some reference and respect. Are you crossed in your goods? Think if you did not over-love them and get them unjustly, or if in your children, see if you did not over-love them and cocker them, and so in all things of like kind. In what God smites you, see if you have not in that sinned against Him, and so frame to lament your sins and to seek help against them. [William Whately
Posted April 12, 2008@12:48 by Deejay
That man is out of reach of harm in this life, who is sure of possessing heaven in the next. This is the portion of every believer. [Samuel Willard]
Posted April 12, 2008@00:01 by Deejay
They are fools that fear to lose their wealth by giving, but not lose themselves by keeping it. [John Trapp]
Posted April 11, 2008@13:46 by Deejay
The Power of Preaching Christ
Oh marvelous power of the divine seed which overpowers strong warriors, softens hearts hard as stone, and renews in the divine image men brutalized by sin and infinitely far from God. Plainly, so mighty a wonder can never be wrought by the word of a priest, if the heat of the Spirit of Life, the Eternal Word, did not, above all things else, work with it. Many men preach themselves and leave to preach Christ. This ornamental style is little in keeping with God's Word. The latter is rather corrupted by it and its power paralyzed for the conversion and regeneration of souls. God's Word, according to Augustine has a peculiar and incomparable eloquence of its own, in its very simplicity and modesty of form. A flowery, captivating style of address is of little value compared to the right substance. Christ promises to his disciples that it should be given to them what they ought to say The how would follow. [John Wycliffe]
Posted April 11, 2008@01:16 by Deejay
Despair is hope stark dead, presumption is hope stark mad. [Thomas Adams]
Posted April 10, 2008@00:57 by Deejay
He shed tears for those that shed His blood. [Thomas Watson]
Posted April 09, 2008@12:09 by Deejay
Labour that holiness may become your nature and religion your business...Brethren, let God's work be done by you, not just by the by, but as your greatest business. Confine not religion to your knees, but carry an even-spun thread of holiness through your whole course. It is the disgrace of religion that Christians are so unlike themselves unless it be when they are in holy duties. This wounds religion to the quick, when it shall be said of professors, these men indeed will pray like Angels, but for aught we can see, they are as peevish as other men, and as hard in their dealings, and make as little conscience of their words as others do. Beloved, do not think religion lies only, or chiefly, in prayer, hearing or reading, for you must be throughout religious...Herein consists the excellency and the difficulty of religion, when you have the baits of intemperance before you, then to hold the reins hard and deny your flesh; when you have the provocation before you, then to bite in your passions and bridle your unruly members; when you have dealings with others then to do unto them as you would have them do in like case to you. In this I say lies the excellence of religion. [Joseph Alleine]
Posted April 08, 2008@00:09 by Deejay
The speical work of our ministry is to lay open Christ, to hold up the tapestry and unfold the mysteries of Christ. Let us labour therefore to be always speaking somewhat about Christ, or tending that way. When we speak of the law, let it drive us to Christ; when of moral duties, let them teach us to walk worthy of Christ. [Richard Sibbes]
Posted April 07, 2008@20:08 by Deejay
It is the office of faith to believe what we do not see, and it shall be the reward of faith to see what we do believe. [Thomas Adams]
Posted April 07, 2008@02:10 by Deejay
Weak faith is true faith--as precious though not so great as strong faith; the same Holy Ghost the author, the same Gospel the instrument...For it is not the strength of our faith that saves, but the truth of our faith---not the weakness of our faith that condemns but the want--of faith. [John Rogers]
Posted April 06, 2008@15:18 by Deejay
As duty cannot do it without Christ; so Christ will not do it without duty. [Richard Baxter]
Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wcked is a night that has no sunrise. [Thomas Wastson]
Posted April 04, 2008@02:40 by Deejay
Humility wrestles with God, like Jacob, and wins by yielding. [Thomas Adams]
Posted April 02, 2008@20:41 by Deejay
The sin which is not too great to be foresaken, is not too great to be forgivien. [Thomas Horton]
Posted April 01, 2008@22:38 by Deejay
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