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“Nearness to God is the foundation of a creature’s happiness.” Isaac Watts (1674-1748)

“For if our faith should depend upon ourselves, surely it would soon flip from us, and it might be shaken off, if it were not maintained from above. “  John Calvin  (1509-1564)

“Were the glory of the infinite Jehovah seen in its true light, as the mightiest and most majestic of all objects and ends, not the exclusion of other matters, but simply to their regulation and subordination,–then should we be saved … Continue reading →

“Let a moment’s failure of his power, of his watchfulness, or of his will to do good, occur, and what a sweep of death and annihilation through the universe! William Howitt (1792-1879)

“The duty of an interpreter of Scripture is to search for the mind of the Spirit.” George Burrowes (1811-1895)

“He is the Alpha, and also the Omega!  Nothing exists that does exist, nothing moves that does move, nothing develops that does develop, nothing happens that does happen, whether light or darkness, whether sin or grace, whether the devil or … Continue reading →

“We are not only loved, and freed from our sins, but, if indeed we are Christians, we are princes and priests, named and anointed for immortal regencies and eternal priesthoods.”  Joseph Augustus Seiss  (1823-1904)

“God did not elect me as a helper, nor create me, nor redeem me, nor convert me, by way of helping me: for he alone did all, and he had no use at all for me.”  John Donne (1572-1631)

“We see then that faith depends upon God’s election or else we must make S. Paul a liar.  And so, as touching the first point, you see that all such as cannot abide to have predestination plainly and openly spoken … Continue reading →

“Self-Control!—This cannot be acquired in an instant…to possess it because we have learned to hand it over to Jesus Christ; to be self-controlled because we are Christ-controlled—this does not come easily or at once.  Only through long years of temptation … Continue reading →