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“God seems to go quite across and work in a contrary way: when He intends the greatest mercies to His people He first usually brings them into very low conditions.”  (Jeremiah Burroughs; 1599-1646)

“The wages that sin bargains with the sinner are life, pleasure and profit; but the wages it pays him with are death, torment, and destruction.  He that would understand the falsehood and deceit of sin, must compare its promises and … Continue reading →

“As with the Master, so with the servants:  witness the calumnies and the reviling that from the time of Joseph’s accusation by his mistress till the present day, have been the lot of God’s people.”  (Michael Ayguan  1340-1416)

In these names, Lord and Jesus Christ’s divinity and humanity blend.  He whom we trust is both God and Man.  As God alone, we could never have known Him.  As Man alone, He could never have saved us.  (William Graham … Continue reading →

(Col. 1: 12, 13). “By reading these verses, we become vastly aware that it was Jesus Christ who delivered us from the power of darkness.  That carries with it a reigning ability which supersedes anything prior to the coming of … Continue reading →

“Jesus Christ suffered all things for the elect’s sake that He might reconcile them to God.  Divine judgment could not be abated.  Full payment which would meet the approval of God was necessary.  In Christ alone was such a thing … Continue reading →

“If anything could be imagined which was to be added in time to the blessedness of the intercourse which the Godhead eternally enjoyed, none would have suggested  that it was to be sinful depraved fallen man. Truly, the election of … Continue reading →

“The very God hath afflicted Himself to satisfy His justice, pouring out His wrath and anger on His Son for the elect’s sins.”  (Unknown)

“Sincerity therefore must be the stamp of my Christian profession.  Though utterly unable to render perfect obedience to the least of the commandments, yet my desire and purpose will have respect unto them all’”  Charles Bridges  (1794-1869)

“Men limit the Lord when they fix on a blessing they would have, even that, and not another; and the measure of it, to what degree it should be bestowed on them, as well as the set time when they … Continue reading →