May 27, 2011

“Consequently, if He positively wills whatever is done, He cannot be indifferent with regard to anything.”  Jerome Zanchius  (1516-1590)

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May 26, 2011

“Contact with moral evil is intense suffering to a pure soul.”  Alfred Plummer (1841-1926)

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May 25, 2011

“The mind which holds the simple fundamental truth that all is of God, may also hold, almost as a matter of course, that all is designed of God.”  J.J. Stewart Perowne  (1823-1904)

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May 24, 2011

“Ay, saith Satan, thou mayest pray indeed, but thou shalt not prevail.  Thou seest thine heart is hard, cold, dull; and dead;….thy thoughts are running after other things, when thou pretendest to pray to God.   Whereas the soul rightly informed and enlightened saith, Well, I will seek the Lord, and wait; I will not leave off, though the Lord keep silence and speak not one word of comfort.”  (Is. Xl 27.)  John Bunyan (1628-1688)

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May 23, 2011

“Grace is that which God implants in the heart against great opposition of enemies, great opposition from the corruption of the heart, and from Satan and the world.”  Jonathan Edwards  (1703-1758)

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May 22, 2011

“True repentance, which is an evangelical contrition of heart and a fixed resolution of spirit to turn from all sin to God, is wrought in the soul by the Spirit of Christ.”  John Colquhoun  (1748-1827)

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May 21, 2011

“Prayer keeps the heart open to God, and shut to sin; it assuages the intemperate hearts and swelling of lust.”  Thomas Watson  (1620-1686)

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May 20, 2011

“Have respect unto the covenant.”   Those persons and preachers who decline to think and speak of gospel mercies and free salvation as secured by covenant, deprive themselves and others of much of the blessed comforts of God’s word.”  William S. Plumer  (1802-1880)

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May 19, 2011

“Let us, therefore, learn from this place to be more anxious about what may happen to the name of God through us, than to our own; whether it be through us in doing, or in us in suffering.”  Wolfgang Musculus (1497-1563)

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May 18, 2011

“Upon all this, the love, grace, and mercy of God, the good-will and purpose of His heart, His council and covenant, the plot of man’s redemption is formed; this is the source and spring of it.”  John Gill  (1697-1771)

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