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“Take notice not only of the mercies of God, but of God in the mercies.  Mercies are never so savory as when they savor of a Savior.”  (Ralph Venning;  1620-1673)

“No greater mercy can be bestowed upon any people, family, or person, than God to dwell among them.”  (James Janeway, 1636-1674)

“The Lord is our portion, and this is incomparably more than if we had heaven and earth; for all the earth is but as a point compared with the vastness of the heavens, and the heavens themselves are but a … Continue reading →

Some think rich men to be excellent, some think learned men to be excellent, some count men in authority so to be, but here we are taught that those are excellent who are sanctified by God’s graces.”  (Richard Greenham; 1531-1591))

“What you cannot do yourselves, give God no rest until he shall be pleased to work a cure.”  (Matthew Poole;  1624-1679)

“Christianity knows no geographical boundaries, no treaty limits, no barriers of language, customs or climes.  It recognizes no distinctions of sex or color, of estate, of education; ‘it represents us all of one blood, the offspring of a common father, … Continue reading →

“Nothing but a perfect obedience can gain God’s favor.  Hence, the covenant, hence, the incarnation and sacrifice of Christ; and hence, the substitution of the just for the unjust.”  (William Arnot; 1808-1875)

“While on earth He was the Father’s faithful witness of the truth.  He never lacked courage nor did He ever compromise.  The path of our human testimony is strewn with failure and even wreckage.  But Christ was faithful unto death.”  … Continue reading →

“It was our sins that murdered him, sin was the spear that wounded and pierced his very heart.  “He being made sin for us.”  We could not live again except he bore our sins upon his own body, and human … Continue reading →

“Unless we realize that in the Bible God is speaking, and not man, it will mean little or nothing.  Man, in the Scriptures, is only the channel and the instrument; God is the infallible Author.”  (M. R. De Haan; 1891-1965)