The Kayelton Group

“The weakness of our faith is open to the temptation of supposing that God regards not the situation of his people in the world; and the Spirit, who knows our infirmities, provides a petition suited to this trial, which expresses at the same time an expectation that God will arise to claim his people as his own.”  (W. Wilson)

“He can do all that ever you need, without any means or instruments.  His bare word is sufficient, all-sufficient, for it, whatever it be, how great, how difficult, how impossible soever it seems.  Such a power there is even in the word of the great King.  There needs no more to deliver you,to deliver his people anywhere, how deep soever plunged, but only the command of him that sits on the throne.”  (David Clarkson)

“Even the ‘light’ which angels and glorified spirits enjoy in heaven would be insufficient to banish all fear and fill them with satisfaction, were it not for their confidence in the ‘truth’ of God.  How much more then must this be the case with erring, sinful mortals on earth?  When the humble spirit is bowed down under a sense of its utter unworthiness and innumerable weaknesses and defilements, its negligences, follies, and wanderings, what should save from despair but the confidence that he who has been merciful will also be faithful; that God is truth as well as light; that he hath said ‘I will never leave thee nor forsake thee;’ that he ‘cannot lie,’ and that, therefore, ‘his mercy endureth for ever”?  (Henry March)

“Christ hath satisfied God’s justice so that on Christ was laid all the sins of all believers.  He was ‘wounded’ for them.  Now God cannot in justice punish twice; therefore seeing Christ was wounded, believers must be healed.”  (Nathanael Homes; 1599–1678)

“Could the grave hold Lazarus when thou didst but open thy mouth to call him forth?  No more can the corruptions of my sores be any hindrance to their healing when thy pleasure is to have them cured.”  (Sir Richard Baker)

“This is it which God expecteth of us, and whereunto he desireth to bring us, that seeing our own emptiness and insufficiency, and the impotency and disability of others to help us, we should in all humility fly to his mercy.”  (William Gouge 1575-1653)

The great act of sovereignty was God’s decree for making the world; and of doing, or permitting to be done, whatever should be in it, to the folding of it up.  The heavens and the earth, and all the hosts of them, as yet had no being; it was at his pleasure whether he would make them or not; and if he would, what being he would give them, to what end, and how that end should be accomplished.  And that these were all ascertained by the decree is evident; for “known unto God were all his works,” which he would do in time, “from the beginning of the world.”  (Elisha Coles; 1608-1688)

“All afflictions are sharp, and in their own nature killing and deadly.  That any have good from them, is from the grace of God, not from their nature.”  (Joseph Caryl; 1602-1673)

“Hold thee still’   And this is the hardest precept that is given to man; insomuch that the most difficult precept of action sinks into nothing when compared with this command to inaction.”  (Jerome; 347-420)

“Soldiers have never been so admired for their victories, as the saints have been for their sufferings.”  (Thomas Watson  1620-1686)