The Kayelton Group

“This was love indeed, that God should take a filthy wretched thing and spread his skirts over it, and cover its nakedness, and swear unto it, and enter into a covenant with it, and make it his;  that is, that he should espouse this loathsome thing to himself, that he would be a husband to it;  this love unfathomable, love inconceivable, self-principle love;  this is the love of God to man, for God is love.”  (James Janeway, 1636-1674)

“He is King over all kingdoms, over all nations, over all governments, over all powers, over all people (Daniel vii. 14).  The very heathen are given to Christ, and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession.”  Psalm 11. 8.  (William Dyer  1665)

“The Churches of Jesus Christ can expect Spiritual abundance only when the Holy Spirit is the director of their affairs.”  (Author not mentioned)

“Mere formality has never been, and can never be, acceptable to God.”  (David Thomas  1813-1894)

“The nearer to God, the clearer becomes our vileness.”  (Job xliii. 6) (William H. Van Doren  1810-1882)

’However hot the furnace, not a particle of heaven’s pure ore—the faith of God’s elect—shall perish there.  Only the base alloys of earth must be consumed.”  (John Lillie  1812-1867)

“It is but little that we can know of his works, but that little should teach us to be humble, and to admire the divine power and goodness.  How great must that Being be who produced these immense globes out of nothing,  who regulates their courses, and whose mighty hand directs and supports them all.”  (Christopher Christian Sturm  1750)

“The structure of the Gospels, when minutely analyzed, brings out all the great elements of the atonement on a basis of historical reality, showing how infinite Intelligence must have presided over their composition.   (George Smeaton; 1814-1889)

“We see then that faith depends upon God’s election or else we must make Paul a liar.  And so, as touching the first point, you see that all such as cannot abide to have predestination plainly and openly spoken of are deadly enemies of God’s grace, and would deface it to the uttermost of their power.  John Calvin  (1509-1564)

“Those, in every age have sunk deepest into folly, who have relied most on their own understanding.”  Charles Hodge  (1794-1878)