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“Oh!  the strange passions, the strange imaginations, the strange conclusions, that attend a distempered judgment.”  (Thomas Brooks, 1608-1680)

“The world is infinitely deceived in thinking that contentment lies in having more than we already have.”  (Jeremiah Burroughs, 1600-1646)

“True faith is blind to everything except the Divine command.”  William Garden Blaikie  (1820-1899)

“Nor is there any knowledge of God at all attainable by men themselves, and what they see and know by revelation is but as nothing in comparison of what Christ hath.”  George Hutcheson (1615–1674)

By the immutability of God is meant that he is incapable of change, either in duration of life, or in nature, character, will or happiness.  In none of these, nor in any other respect is there any possibility of change.  … Continue reading →

“The furnace of afflictions shows upright, real faith to be such indeed, remaining still the same even in the fire, the same that it was, undiminished, as good gold loses none of its quality in the fire.”  Robert Leighton  (1611-1684)

Psalm 143.  “This worthy Psalm containeth these three things:  First, a confession of his sins.  Second, a lamentation over his injuries.  Third, a supplication for temporal deliverance and spiritual graces.”  Archibald Symson  (1790-1847)

“David’s plea, ‘For I am thy servant,’ is no boast of his service, but a magnifying of God’s electing grace.”  Andrew Robert Fausset  (1821-1910)

“God is to be the only object of worship: the only resource of our soul in times of need.  Leave broken cisterns to the godless, and let the godly drink from the Divine fountain alone.”  Charles H. Spurgeon  (1834-1892)

Our love is not the cause of His, but His is the cause of ours; and it is not merely His loving us, but the shedding it abroad in our hearts by His Spirit, which draws out our love to … Continue reading →