Monthly Archives: April 2018

“The sinner must suffer—or if he is to be spared that suffering God Himself must take the sinner’s place as his Substitute and pay that penalty Himself.  Consequently, in taking the sinner’s place before the Divine law and meeting its … Continue reading →

“The evil is in the unmortifiedness of your affections, not in the misery of your condition.”  Thomas Manton  (1620-1677)

“All too often the intentions that arise in our hearts are not fully or even partially understood by ourselves.  The advice of Socrates, ‘know thyself,’ is well enough given, but how can we know ourselves?  At best, we have but … Continue reading →

“Better is that sin which humbles me, than that duty which makes me proud.”  (Thomas Watson  1620-1686)

“The Son of David and Son of God are thus finally described by three well known titles: “Jesus” which identifies Him as the crucified Saviour,  “Christ” the promised Messiah, “our Lord” the exalted King, to whom all power is given … Continue reading →

Time’s fullness, introduced with Christ’s first advent, concludes with His second advent:  then Eternity (Galatians 4:4; Ephesians 1:10).  (John Wilmot  1647-1680)

“One word of Holy Scripture, or of truth conformable to it, may be the principle of regeneration to him that hath heard multitudes of excellent sermons, and hath often read the whole Bible, and hath still continued unchanged.”  Robert Leighton  … Continue reading →

“If Jesus Christ is truly the Son of God, equal with God, having the same nature with the Father, the only begotten of the Father, then he is fit to  be our Lord, the absolute proprietor of our persons, worthy … Continue reading →

“EGOTISM, or a disposition to bring forward a person’s self, is a characteristic of a weak mind and a contracted heart.”  (John Brown  1784-1858)

“We are many times humorous, preposterous, and hasty, and now we must have mercy or we die; deliverance or we are undone; but our impatience will never help us to a mercy, one hour, one moment, before the time that … Continue reading →