The Kayelton Group

“To speak oppression is to speak words tending to the injury of others.  From on high, proudly, with arrogant contempt of others.  They speak as if from a superior position.”  (Joseph Addison Alexander; 1873)

“If we open our mouths to God in prayer, he will fill them more and more with suitable petitions and arguments.  When we attempt to open the mouth, God will open it still wider.”  Benjamin Beddome  (1717-1795)

“Mistrust cannot tolerate the hidden purposes of God.  It wars against divine testimonies, and obscures counsel with frantic reproaches.”  (Not Known)

“A fretful, complaining Christian is a contradiction in terms.”  (William Garden Blaikie; 1820-1899)

“God cannot bear it with patience, that we should limit him, either to the time, or manner, or means of help.”  (Joseph Caryl, 1602-1673)

There may therefore be guilt where there is no moral pollution, as in the case of our blessed Lord, who bore our sins; and there may be freedom from guilt, where moral pollution remains, as in the case of every justified sinner.”  (Charles Hodge; 1797-1878)

 “Justification is a legal sentence or declaration issued by God in which He pronounces the person in question free from any fault or guilt and acceptable in His sight.  The person is declared to have met all the requirements of God’s holy law and to possess a perfect righteousness.”  (David N. Steele and Curtis C. Thomas on Romans)

“The word ‘ungodly’ is a strong one and shows the magnitude and extent of God’s grace; his justifying judgment is exercised not simply upon the unrighteous but upon the ungodly.”  (John Murray; 1898-1975)

“The believer, in his union with Christ, is viewed as perfectly righteous, because in truth he is so, for the righteousness of God is ‘upon him,’ Rom. 3:22;  Jehovah is  his righteousness, Jer. 23: 6.  God is therefore just in justifying him; and in the day of judgment the Great Judge will pronounce him ‘righteous,’ Matt. 15:37-46, and award to him ‘a crown of righteousness,’ according to the strictest justice.  The gift of this righteousness, with the justification it brings alone with it, is indeed perfectly gratuitous, and the manner of bestowing it is gratuitous—freely by grace; but ‘grace reigns through righteousness’ Rom. 5: 21,–in that way which meets every demand of the law and justice.”  (Robert Haldane; 1772-1854)

“Works are not taken into consideration when the question respects justification.  But true faith will no more fail to produce them than the sun can cease to give light.”  (Martin Luther; 1483-1546)