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“The Lord looks for no power or sufficiency from you, of yourselves; nor of yourselves any power against corruption, or enlargement to duties.”  Thomas Hooker  (1586-1647)

“Atheism is the refinement of speculation, and not the dictate of human nature.”  Aelian

“Men may have made great progress in the art of prayer, in religious liberty, in Christian activity; they may have shown themselves faithful in times of temptation, and apt scholars in Christian doctrine, and yet prove signally defective in temper: self-willed, self-seeking, … Continue reading →

“Goodness is laid up in the promise, wrought in the performance; and that goodness which is laid up is wrought for them that trust in God; and thus, as God’s faithfulness engageth us to believe, so our faith, as it … Continue reading →

“Purge away our sins for Thy Name’s sake,” i.e. “that God’s Name may be glorified as a God who pardoneth iniquity, and sin.”J.J. Stewart Perowne (1823-1904)

“The praise of the upright heart will be shown in the holy walk and conversation.”  (Ps. CXVI 12-14)  Charles Bridges  (1794-1869)

“Our justification is by faith alone:  works form no part of that righteousness in which we can stand before the tribunal of God.”  Charles Hodge  (1797-1878)

“his faith is counted for righteousness; We see here the nature of the faith that is counted for righteousness; it is the faith of one who regards himself as “ungodly,” and unable to justify himself by his own works, but … Continue reading →

“The Lord’s people are a humbled people: afflicted, emptied, sensible of their need, driven to a daily attendance on God, daily begging of him, and living only upon the hope of what is promised;  for so are they here described … Continue reading →

“The apostasy of the race is universal, and the proof of it is found everywhere from the equator to the poles.”  James Madison Pendleton; 1811-1891