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Against Division, separation and Schism
He that is not a son of Peace is not a son of God. All other sins destroy the Church consequentially; but Division and Separation demolish it directly.
----Richard Baxter
Posted by Deejay September 30 2008@21:22
Holiness
Without holiness no man shall see the Lord. Heaven is a city where righteousness dwells... It is holiness that fits us for communion with God in this life... The Spirit of God gives a lie to that man who says he has acquaintance with God, while he keeps his acquaintance with any unrighteousness... Communion is founded on union, and union upon likeness.. An unholy heart has no dealings with God; he takes no notice of God...
---William Gurnall
Posted by Deejay September 29 2008@01:35
Faith vs Presumption
Only faith knows how to deal with mercy. Don't displace faith with presumption [wild faith]. Presumption puts itself in the place of faith when it tampers with the promise of life while the soul is a stranger to repentance. You have in the text (Luke 24:47), to prevent doing thus, both repentance and remission of sins to be offered to Jerusalem, not remission without repentance for all that repent shall not perish.
Men presume, when they are resolved to abide in their sins, and yet expect to be saved by God's grace through Christ... It cannot be that God should be wheedled out of his mercy, or prevailed upon by lips of dissimulation. He knows them that trust in Him and that sincerely come to him by Christ, for mercy.
---John Bunyan
Posted by Deejay September 28, 2008@21:06
The Poor Man's Tears
I know that in these days and in this iron age it is as hard a thing to persuade men to part with money as it is to pull out their eyes and cast them away... Nevertheless, I cannot but wonder that men are so slow in giving of alms, and so hard-hearted towards the relief of the poor, when the promises of God, warrant them not to lose their reward... The Kingdom of God belongs to him that shelters strangers, clothes the naked, feeds the hungry, comforts the sick, and performs such charitable acts of compassion (1 John 3:17; Matt 25:31-46).. The excellency of Christians consists in leading a godly life, and giving of alms... a charitable relief of given to the sick, the lame the blind, the powerless the needy, the hungry [out of] that which God has mercifully bestowed upon us.
---Henry Smith
Posted by Deejay September 28, 2008@02:45
Sincerity
Labour for sincerity. Without it, we can neither stand against, nor rise when we fall into temptation. Whatever you beg of God, forget not a sincere heart... Crowns and diadems are not to be compared with it... Nothing makes you more like God in the simplicity and purity of his nature, than sincerity.
---William Gurnall
Posted by Deejay September 27, 2008@06:08
The Minister
A minister...a merchant of invaluable jewel.
----Abraham Wright
Posted by Deejay September 25, 2008@06:03
Conscience
If conscience is not a bridle, it will be a whip. If it is not a curb, it will be a scourge. If you will not hear the warnings, you shall feel the lashings of conscience. If it does not restrain from sin by admonition, it will put us to pain by contrition.
---Samuel Bolton
Posted by Deejay September 23, 2008@01:46
His Divine Will
The Lord's pleasure, is the Lord's leisure.
---Thomas Fuller
Posted by Deejay September 21, 2008@04:58
The Company We Keep
Let not any so much presume upon their own strength, as to imagine that they can retain their sincerity, though they keep wicked company, and rather convert them to good, than be perverted by them to evil, seeing as this is a matter of great difficulty...For as he who is running down the hill can sooner pull with him one that is ascending, than he who is going up can cause him to ascend that is running down...And thus it is in our spiritual state, wherein the worse more prevails to corrupt the better, than the better to reform the worse.
---George Downame
Posted by Deejay September 20, 2008@02:14
On Meekness
Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example to follow, so that you might follow in his steps..When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him, who judges justly. [1 Pet.2:21, 23]
---Richard Baxter
Posted by Deejay September 19, 2008@00:45
Grace and Disgrace
The ministry will not grace the man; the man may disgrace the ministry.
---Joseph Hall
Posted by Deejay September 18, 2008@02:19
Meditating on Christ
If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and decay in grace according to his thoughts and meditations upon the person of Christ, and the glory of Christ's Kingdom, and of His love.
John Owen
Posted by Deejay September 17, 2008@00:32
Liberty
Wherefore, though the Christian, as a Christian, is the only man at liberty, as called thereunto of God; yet his liberty is limited to things that are good: he is not licensed thereby to indulge in the flesh.
---John Bunyan
Posted by Deejay September 15, 2008@23:22
Joy
There are two things, which i have always looked upon as difficult. The one is, to make the wicked sad; the other is, to make the godly joyful. Dejection in the godly arises from a double spring; either because their inward comforts are darkened, or their outward comforts are disturbed.
----Thomas Watson
Posted by Deejay September 13, 2008@01:14
Mercy
Mercy pleaseth him. It is no trouble for him to exercise mercy. It is his delight: we are never weary of receiving, therefore he cannot be of giving; for it is a more blessed thing to give than to receive; so God takes more content in the one than we in the other.
----Richard Harris
Posted by Deejay September 12, 2008@01:56
Heaven and Hell
Heaven is aptly compared to a hill, hell to a hole.
---John Trapp
Posted by Deejay September 10, 2008@00:00
This Fighting Life
When we consider this fighting life aright, we need not be dissuaded from loving it. We rather have need to be strengthened with patience to go through and to fight on with courage and assurance of victory; still fighting in a higher strength than our own against sin within and troubles without. This is the great scope of this epistle. Against sin, the apostle instructs us at the beginning of this chapter. And here again, against suffering...He urges us to be armed with the same mind that was in Christ...The words to the end of the chapter contain grounds of encouragement and consolation for the children of God in sufferings, especially in suffering for God.
---Robert Leighton--A practical commentary on 1 Peter.
Posted by Deejay September 09, 2008@01:02
Mercies
Few can bear great and sudden mercies without pride and wantonness, till they are hampered and humbled to carry it moderately.
---Samuel Lee
Posted by Deejay September 08, 2008@02:48
As New Born Babes
All who would profit in the school of Christ, and receive light and comfort by the preaching of the Word, are here taught to become as "babes" to lay aside all malice, and bring holy and sanctified hearts to the hearing of it.
---Henry Smith
Posted by Deejay September 07, 2008@18:10
Conscience
The conscience is not to be healed, if it not be wounded.
---William Perkins
Posted by Deejay September 07, 2008@01:04
Sin Disguises Itself.
Sin goes in disguise, and thence is welcome; like Judas, it kisses and kills; like Joab, it salutes and slays.
---George Swinnock
Posted by Deejay September 06, 2008@00:06
Perfection
God is perfectly good. All the perfection we can arrive at in this life is sincerity. We may resemble God a little, but not equal him; He is infinitely perfect.
---Thomas Watson
Posted by Deejay September 05, 2008@12:11
No One Knows the Hour
Christ hath told us He will come, but not when, that we might never put off our clothes, or put out the candle.
---William Gurnall
Posted by Deejay September 04, 2008@00:12
Rumour
Rumour is a loud liar, like a snowball that gathereth as it goeth.
---John Trapp
Posted by Deejay September 03, 2008@11:16
Our Foiil
Satan is only God's master fencer to teach us to use our weapons.
---Samual Rutherford
Posted by Deejay September 02, 2008@03:32
Patience
A man's wisdom is known by his patience [endurance], as though the impatient cannot be wise. By patience we receive the promises...Patience breeds experience, and experience hope, as though he who lacks patience has no experience of God to know the scope of his doings nor any hope to comfort him about the life to come... If we suffer with Christ we shall reign with Christ..The Lord loves those he chastens and by suffering we are made like the Son of God.
By patience, Job did bear all the torments that the devil could heap upon him; by patience Joseph forgave his brothers, when he might have put them to death... by patience Christ suffered banishment, reproaches and scourges, until he went to death like a lamb to the slaughter.
---Henry Smith
Posted by Deejay September 01, 2008@01:41
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