The Kayelton Group

“Now, my brethren, what is the great doubt that possesses the hearts of Christians, that usually takes up their thoughts? It is not so much a questioning of the power of God to raise them up hereafter, as it is the power of God to keep them for the present.” Thomas Goodwin (1600-1697)

“For the perfection of the faithful is to acknowledge their own weakness, and to pray God not only to amend all their misdoing but also to bear with them of His infinite goodness, and not to call them to account with extremity and rigor.” John Calvin (1509-1564)

“It might have been foreseen all along, for ‘affliction’ is no chance weed that springs up haphazard, but ‘man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.” (Job v. 6, 7) Edgar C.S. Gibson (1717-1795)

“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)

“Open thy mouth wide then, O Christian; stretch out thy desires to the uttermost, grasp heaven and earth in thy boundless wishes, and believe there is enough in God to afford thee full satisfaction.” (Benjamin Beddome, 1771-1795)

“For if it should prove to be the meaning, that all this power of God, the same power that wrought in Christ in raising Him from death unto life, if that power should be put forth in conversion at first, and that power should be engaged to keep a man to salvation; then all the doctrine of Freewill and of falling from Grace, falls to the ground!!! Thomas Goodwin (1600-1679)

“As for our part, let us mark that God has chosen us to the end we should be blameless: Howbeit, that we are not able to be so till we are quite rid of all our infirmities, and departed out of this prison of sin, wherein we are held fast as now.” John Calvin (1509-1564)

“Dangerous prayers. When lust dictates, wrath may answer. Let grace dictate, and mercy will answer.” Unknown

“Yea, the devil, the arch-evil-angel, who seeks to devour, yet must be sent ere he can do ought.” Richard Clerke (1634)

“Grace to pray, and the fixing of the heart in prayer on the Lord, is his gift, no less than the answer of the prayer: and where the Lord giveth the one grace, he will also give the other: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear.”David Dickson (1583-1662)