Monthly Archives: November 2016

“And though the expression, Keep thy heart, seems to put it upon us as our work, yet it does not imply a sufficiency in us to do it. We are as able to stop the sun in its course, or … Continue reading →

“And one may have confessed and sincerely repented of that sin, which yet shall make him go halting to the grave. ‘You were a God that forgave them, though you took vengeance on their inventions.” Thomas Boston (1608-1680)

“If God had not foreordained the course of events but waited until some undetermined condition was or was not fulfilled, His decrees could be neither eternal nor immutable. We know, however, that He is incapable of mistake, and that He … Continue reading →

“Though our expectations are, in some particular instances, disappointed, yet God’s promises are not disannulled; they are established in the very heavens, that is, in his eternal counsels; they are above the changes of this lower region, and out of … Continue reading →

“The descriptions of God help us to form right thoughts of him, and the promise, to fasten upon him by a sure trust.” Thomas Manton (1620-1677)

“Fear not, then, believer, the curse is on your foe. Dust is his food.” Henry Law (1797-1884)

“There are doctrines taught in the Bible of which the unaided intellect of man could have formed no conception.” James Madison Pendleton (1811-1891)

“I look into the Bible and see myself, not as I think I am, but as I really am, guilty and ruined (Rom. 3:19).”   Claude Duval Cole (1885-1968)

“What a mercy that if we believe not, yet God abideth faithful, hearing prayer even when we are laboring under doubts which dishonor his name.” Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1898)

“What is said on the spur of the moment is sometimes better evidence of a man’s disposition than what he says deliberately, for the latter may be calculated hypocrisy.” Alfred Plummer (1841-1926)