The Kayelton Group

“The sacrificial death of God’s Christ was necessary.  There was no other manner by which to reconcile the elect unto God.”  (Author not mentioned )

“The strange dispensation of affairs in this world is an argument which doth convincingly prove that there shall be such a day wherein all the involucra and entanglements of providence shall be clearly unfolded.  Then shall the riddle be dissolved, why God hath given this and that profane wretch so much wealth, and so much power to do mischief: is it not that they might be destroyed forever?”  (Ezekiel Hopkins, 1634)

“Those, who have once known the unspeakable enjoyment of communion with a reconciled God, cannot long endure the sensible withdrawment of divine mercy.”  (Morrison, 1762-1809)

“There is present to each of us a wicked demon, lying in wait for us, a seducer and hater of good, and the same that from the beginning plotted against the salvation of man.”  (Eusebius, 263-339)

“The knowledge of God is the root of knowledge.”   (William Arnot  1808-1875)

“We know not what our prayer should be, for two reasons, because the future is still hidden, and even in the present life we know not what is best for us.”  (Augustine, 354-430)

“So demented is the mind and heart of the natural man that he will cleave to that which will cause him the eternal vengeance of a Holy God.  We find in Psalms 52 that the natural man loves evil rather than good, lying rather than to speak the truth,”  (No name given)

“O blessed prayer!  Thou art the unwearied conqueror of human woes, the firm foundation of human happiness, the source of ever-enduring joy, the mother of philosophy.  The man who can truly, though languishing in extremest indigence, is richer than all beside, whilst the wretch who never bowed the knee, though proudly sitting as monarch of all nations, is of all men most destitute.”  (Chrysostom, 347-407)

“Parable.”  “External worship cannot improve sinful nature.”  (Neander, 1650-1680)

“To do evil for good, is human corruption; to do good for good, is civil retribution; but to do good for evil, is Christian perfection.  Though this be not the grace of nature, yet it is the nature of grace.  (William Secker 1861)