Monthly Archives: March 2014

“For we know well enough, that howsoever God seem at the first not to hear, yet the Lord is a sure refuge in due time—in affliction.”  (Thomas Playfere; 1561)

“Christ does not only declare that God will give us needed grace, but He Himself undertakes to see it done.”  Jonathan Edwards  (1703-1758)

“Here is One who has all tender counsel and consolation for all who apply to him.  Is not this the prerogative of Jehovah?  ‘I, even I, am he that comforts you.’  This office demands omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, eternity: and he … Continue reading →

“Sin remaining in me will not prove that therefore I am not in Christ, otherwise Christ should have no members upon earth; but grace working in that new disposition which nature could never effect proves undoubtedly that we are in … Continue reading →

“Whether for the overthrow of his enemies or the salvation of his people, ‘The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.’  It scatters the proud and it gives joy and confidence to … Continue reading →

“God sees what filthy, vile, lusting hearts you have, and therefore suffers these pains to come upon you, and so you are kept from lust.”  (William Bridge  1600-1671)

“All the arms of the armoury of an avenging God fall harmless because all spend their fury in the breast of God’s co-eternal and co-almighty Son.”  (Henry Law..1797-1884)

“It is from spiritual and heart-affecting views of the Lamb of God bearing our sins and carrying our sorrows that the exercise of evangelical repentance immediately flows…The exercise of evangelical repentance springs from a true sense of sin.”  John Colquhoun  … Continue reading →

Submissive obedience has no motive beyond itself.  It asks no reasons; it cherishes no ulterior purpose.”  (Alfred Edersheim; 1825-1889)

“Though the valleys be so deep that we cannot see the bottom, and the mountains so high that we cannot see the tops of them, yet God knows how to raise the one and level the other.”  (Timothy Cruso; 1657-1697)