Monthly Archives: March 2011

“Faith accepts the present remission of sins; hope is the expectation of future deliverance.”  (Phillip Melanchthon, 1497-1560)

“That no two men can more differ one from another than the same servant of God at several times differeth from himself.”  (Thomas Fuller; 1608-1661)

“Love causes believers to take all things that God sends them favourably and in good part.”  (John Albert Bengel  1687-1752)

“My soul is also sore vexed.  It depresses its spiritual energies, quenches the ardors of devotion, darkens the prospect of faith and hope, produces slavish dread, creates an inaptitude to spiritual services and enjoyments, and acts, in  all respects upon … Continue reading →

“My soul is greatly agitated. Rendered vexed in Ps. 6. 3.  There is no troubles like soul-troubles.  Sin will mar anything.  It will make any soul wretched.”  (Joseph  Addison Alexander, 1860)

“God must change his nature, or the sinner’s nature must be changed.  There can be no friendly communion between two of different natures without the change of one of them into the likeness of the other.”  (Stephen Charnock, 1628-1680)

“Those for whom Christ died do not have the virtues in and of themselves to function as a holy, consecrated child of God.  But, the grace that has saved them is the same grace that will preserve them.”  (No name … Continue reading →

“True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed: and the divine excellence of real Christianity, is never exhibited with such advantage, as when under the greatest trials.”  (Jonathan Edwards; 1703-1758)

Identified with sinful man was the very God.  He received the fatal stroke of Divine judgment.  Becoming sin for His people caused separation from His Father.  The Holy eyes of God were too pure to look upon what Jesus became … Continue reading →

“The intenseness of the affliction renders it trying to our fortitude; but it is by the continuance of it that patience is put to the test.  It is not under the sharpest, but the longest trials, that we are most … Continue reading →