Monthly Archives: April 2017

“Watch.”  “We do injustice to that good and happy word, ‘watch,’ when we take it as watching against; against a danger; against a coming evil.  It will bear that interpretation; but it is a far higher, and better, and more … Continue reading →

The great act of sovereignty was God’s decree for making the world; and of doing, or permitting to be done, whatever should be in it, to the folding of it up.  The heavens and the earth, and all the hosts … Continue reading →

“These are the two productions of the Spirit of God in a believer– ‘patience’ and ‘long suffering’ or long waiting, in which principally our strength consists.”  John Daille  (1594-1670)

Murmuring fills the soul with cares, fears, distractions, vexations; all which unfits a man for duty.”  Thomas Brooks (1608-1680)

Thoughts are sins!  The law judges them, rebukes a man for them, and therefore they are transgressions of the law.  Thoughts are capable of pardon, they must be pardoned if we are to be saved, which argues the multitudes of … Continue reading →

“By these cross providences, God is faithfully pursuing the great design of electing love upon the souls of his people, and orders all these afflictions as means sanctified to that end.  Afflictions come not by casualty, but by counsel.”  John … Continue reading →

“A view which holds that the free acts of men are uncertain, sacrifices the sovereignty of God in order to preserve the freedom of men.”  Loraine Beottner  (1901-1990)

Humility consists in being dependent on grace alone.  (Frans Bakker; 1919-1965)

“The death of Christ does not benefit the man who lives and dies without faith in it.”  Claude Duval Cole  (1885-1968)

“Wearied with traversing in vain the wide circle of human expedients; coming to the end of all your own wisdom, strength, and resources; your uneasy, jaded spirit is brought into this resting posture of waiting on, and waiting for, the … Continue reading →