The Kayelton Group

“Seeing in the glass of the loving kindness, sparing mercy, and holy law of God, and of the agony and anguish of his Redeemer, the unutterable deformity, odiousness and demerit of his sins, he abhors himself for his iniquities and abominations.”  (John Colquhoun  1748-1827)

“Nothing in this world can change the deceitful and desperately wicked heart of man and cause it to do service for God.”  (Joseph Caryl; 1602-1673)

“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 its payments together.”  (Robert South, 1633-1716)

“Faith accepts the present remission of sins; hope is the expectation of future deliverance.”  (Phillip Melanchthon, 1497-1560)

“The free promises of the Lord are all certain; his commandments right and good; the recompense of reward to be valued above thousands of gold and silver. Trust therefore in the Lord O my soul and follow hard after him.”  (John Ball; 1632)

“Love causes believers to take all things that God sends them favorably and in good part.”  (John Albert Bengel  1687-1752)

“Certain it is that also that first sin, though the responsibility of it is entirely man’s, and though it was wanton and willful disobedience, was according to the inscrutable plan and purposes of the Most High, and took place under the controlling guidance of His providence.”  (Herman Hoeksema; 1886-1965)

“Reason must neither be the rule to measure faith by, nor the judge thereof.”  (Christopher Ness  1621-1705)

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 possible,”  (1977, Author not named)

“There is no better assurance of final victory than that drawn from the grace which enables us to trust in the divine mercy in the darkest hours.”  (William S. Plumer; 1802-1880)