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“Hand.”  “With the hand we demand, we promise, we call, dismiss, threaten, entreat, supplicate, deny, refuse, interrogate, admire, reckon, confess, repent; express shame, express doubt; we instruct, command, unite, encourage, swear, testify, accuse, condemn, acquit, insult, despise, defy, disdain, flatter, … Continue reading →

“Christians are often more anxious and perplexed about their success, than with respect to their duty.”  (Robert Haldane;  1712-1854)

“Divine sovereignty, therefore, must not be considered as a blind partiality, or a dictate of mere will without wisdom; but as the exercise of an all-comprehensive understanding, and of a will that is inflexibly right, ordering all the affairs of … Continue reading →

“Pre-eminently He was the Lamb of God, and He was sacrificed for us.  Let us reckon ourselves judged in Him.  The Judgment which has befallen Him has settled the great question of sin.  He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised … Continue reading →

“I was held before conversion, not with an iron chain, but with the obstinacy of mine own will.”  (Augustine; 354-430)

“The righteous get good out of all the evil that befalls them, but the wicked so pervert everything as to get evil out of all the good sent them.”  (William S. Plumer; 1867)

“Errors cannot be adorned, no matter how skillfully one may try.”  (Joseph Caryl;  1602-1673)

“Blessed are the poor in spirit,”  That is, that are emptied of themselves, and look upon themselves as having nothing, deserving nothing, able to do nothing spiritually.”  (Thomas Goodwin; 1600-1679)

“If the Lord had allowed you to have done what you had sometimes thought to do in a discontented fit, what wretched misery you would have brought upon yourselvelf.”  (Jeremiah Burroughs;  1599-1646)

“But now, God speaks  and I am dumb; He opens His mouth, and I hold my peace.  I bid my busy, speculative soul be quiet.  I am still, and know that it is God.  I now at once and recognize … Continue reading →