The Kayelton Group

“Afflictions, when they are sanctified by divine grace, prove happy means of turning sinners from the error of their ways.”  (Matthew Henry  1662-1714)

“The God of glory, the sovereign LORD, seated upon the heavenly throne, possesses perfect knowledge of man.”  (Edward J. Young  1907-1968)

“The end of the gospel ministry is to bring sinners, of all nations, to obey the commands of God, by believing in his Son, and submitting to his authority; that his name may be glorified in their salvation, and that they may become a peculiar people to shew forth his praises.”  John Scott

“It will always be true that the justified sinner has no claims to the mercy and favor of God.”  (John Brown  1784-1858)

“So say I, from whence comes all this muttering, murmuring, fretting, and vexing and come they not hence, even from unmortified lusts?  Come they not from your unmortified pride, and unmortified self-love, and unmortified unbelief, and unmortified passion? (Thomas Brooks  1608-1680)

“All wonderful!  Wonderful that the Spirit should strive with man; wonderful that God should bear with his backslidings; wonderful that God should love him not withstanding his pollutions; wonderful that God should persist in saving him in spite, as it were, of himself.”  (Henry Melvill 1709-1871)

“Every parent’s prayer to God should be that of Manoah, ‘O my Lord, teach us what we shall do to the child?”  Judges 13  (Andrew Robert Fausset  1821-1910)

“It is the Gospel of God, inasmuch as God is its author, its interpreter, its subject:  its author, as He has purposed it in His eternal decrees; its interpreter, as He Himself hath declared it to men; its subject, because in the Gospel His sovereign perfections and purposed toward men are manifested.”  (Robert Haldane; 1792-1854)

“There may be indeed a time when God will not be found, but no time wherein he must not be trusted.”  Thomas Lye  (1621-1684)

“O Lord, who delightest  in mercy,  I beseech thee thy sharp corrections; and do not proceed to inflict upon me the severest marks of thy displeasure.”  ( Psa. 6:1; Patrick)