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“And the Holy Scripture calls God’s election the Book of Life.  As I said before, Jesus Christ serves for a Register:  it is He in whom we are engraved, and in whom God acknowledges us for His children.  Seeing then that … Continue reading →

“The smoke and the fragrance ascend to heaven.  All is accepted—Christ first, then each of His people.  He passed through suffering, fire and flame—then was accepted.  They being reckoned one with Him, are treated as if they had done so … Continue reading →

“Men are very unwilling to admit that God should have any end with respect to them greater than their happiness.  But his own glory is everywhere in the Scripture represented as the chief end of man’s existence, and of the … Continue reading →

“The offence of the Cross” is still the greatest offence in the Christian Gospel.  If man objects to God’s law, he objects still more to the truth that his salvation is entirely and solely dependent upon the grace and mercy … Continue reading →

“I am only in the lower form in Christ’s school if I am in it at all.”  Jeremiah Burroughs (1599-1646)

“The higher we rise in the kingdom the more we shall be like Jesus in his humbling of Himself.”  Alexander Balmain Bruce  (1831-1899)

“Assured confidence is no idle dream, for when the Holy Ghost bestows it upon us, we know its reality, and could not doubt it, even though all men should deride our boldness.”  Charles H. Spurgeon  (1834-1892)

“We need desire no more to make us happy than for God to remember us with favour.”  Matthew Henry  (1662-1714)

“He that liveth by sense, will, and passion is not wise.”  Thomas Manton  (1620-1677)

“We must beware of the tendency to discount the corruptions of human nature.”  John Murray  (1898-1975)