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“Examine carefully your daily household life, your intercourse with the world, and the ordinary strain of your thinking, speaking, and conduct; and see if there be not much in them concerning which you must confess, ‘This is not as it … Continue reading →

“Let the resolution of the prophet be thine,” I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.” William Greenhill (1591-1671)

“The gulf which divides the Creator from the creature is wide, and no created mind has analyzed God’s being or measured the ways of His counsel.” (Klass Schilder 1890-1952)

“A God full of compassion; that is, infinitely compassionate, and, as it were, affected with our misery. He is gracious, though we be unworthy: he is long-suffering, although we be given to strife and provocation of him; and how great … Continue reading →

“Justification is a judicial but gracious act of God by which a sinner is absolved from the guilt of sin, is freed from condemnation, and has a right to eternal life, adjudged, merely for the sake of our Lord’s obedience, … Continue reading →

“The more knowledge of God he hath , the more he discovers his ignorance; the more love to God, the more he finds and is ashamed of his enmity.” (Stephen Charnock 1628-1680)

“He took indeed sin’s form, that He might bear sin’s due: but He never knew sin’s stain.” Henry Law (1797-1884)

“Faith knows no past and no future. What God done, and will do, is present to it.” (E.W. Hengstenberg; 1802-1869)

“Truly may we say, the sweet savour of the death of Christ, perpetuated through the ceaseless ministry of our High Priest, is ever our memorial of acceptance with God: sheltered under that, no ill-savour of ours can awaken wrath—no accusation … Continue reading →

“To will is from nature, to will well is from grace; spiritual fruit must spring from a spiritual root.” (Christopher Ness; 1621-1705)