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“Could the grave hold Lazarus when thou didst but open thy mouth to call him forth?  No more can the corruptions of my sores be any hindrance to their healing when thy pleasure is to have them cured.”  (Sir Richard … Continue reading →

“This is it which God expecteth of us, and whereunto he desireth to bring us, that seeing our own emptiness and insufficiency, and the impotency and disability of others to help us, we should in all humility fly to his … Continue reading →

The great act of sovereignty was God’s decree for making the world; and of doing, or permitting to be done, whatever should be in it, to the folding of it up.  The heavens and the earth, and all the hosts … Continue reading →

“All afflictions are sharp, and in their own nature killing and deadly.  That any have good from them, is from the grace of God, not from their nature.”  (Joseph Caryl; 1602-1673)

“Hold thee still’   And this is the hardest precept that is given to man; insomuch that the most difficult precept of action sinks into nothing when compared with this command to inaction.”  (Jerome; 347-420)

“Soldiers have never been so admired for their victories, as the saints have been for their sufferings.”  (Thomas Watson  1620-1686)

“None but God’s people can call Him Lord, and no man calleth Him LORD save through Jesus Christ His Son.”  (Edward J. Young  1907-1968)

Confessions force and bind the conscience of the believer, subjecting him to doctrines of men rather than to the Word of God only.  (Herman Hoeksema; 1886-1965)

“In this be confident, if your provision be spent, either fresh supplies are coming, though you see not whence, or you are nearer your journey’s end than you reckon yourself to be.”  (John Flavel  1627-1691)

He redeemed us from the curse, by becoming a curse for us.  (John Brown; 1784-1858)