The Kayelton Group

“My soul is also sore vexed.  It depresses its spiritual energies, quenches the ardors of devotion, darkens the prospect of faith and hope, produces slavish dread, creates an inaptitude to spiritual services and enjoyments, and acts, in  all respects upon the mind of a believer, as disease does upon the body.”  (Morison)

“My soul is greatly agitated. Rendered vexed in Ps. 6. 3.  There is no troubles like soul-troubles.  Sin will mar anything.  It will make any soul wretched.”  (Joseph  Addison Alexander, 1860)

“God must change his nature, or the sinner’s nature must be changed.  There can be no friendly communion between two of different natures without the change of one of them into the likeness of the other.”  (Stephen Charnock, 1628-1680)

“Those for whom Christ died do not have the virtues in and of themselves to function as a holy, consecrated child of God.  But, the grace that has saved them is the same grace that will preserve them.”  (No name given  1946)

“True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed: and the divine excellence of real Christianity, is never exhibited with such advantage, as when under the greatest trials.”  (Jonathan Edwards; 1703-1758)

Identified with sinful man was the very God.  He received the fatal stroke of Divine judgment.  Becoming sin for His people caused separation from His Father.  The Holy eyes of God were too pure to look upon what Jesus became (sin for us).  This resulted in abandonment by His Holy Father.  It was then that the Glory of Heaven cried, ‘Eli, Eli, lama sa-bach-tha-ni?’  My God, my God why hast thou forsaken me?  ‘Crucified, dead, and buried—such was the passion of God’s annointed.  (Isa. 53: 1-2; Matt. 26:57-68;  Isa 52. 14;  Matt.27: 27-31; & 33, 46).  (Author not noted)

“The intenseness of the affliction renders it trying to our fortitude; but it is by the continuance of it that patience is put to the test.  It is not under the sharpest, but the longest trials, that we are most in danger of fainting.”  (Andrew Fuller; 1754-1815)

“It hath ever been the lot of truth (like the Lord of it) to be crucified between right-hand and left-hand thieves.  Truth’s enemies, on all hands, are various.”  (Christopher Ness  1621-1705)

“Observe that doubt is the beginning of temptation.”  (Henry Alrord  1872)

“Except a man be born again, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.”    “The only Saviour and the unerring Judge should impress our minds with the conviction that the matter is finally settled and determined by an authority which no power in heaven or on earth can challenge or resist.”  (James Buchanan  1804-1870)