The Kayelton Group

“Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.”  Ps. lxxi 21.  “This, therefore, is the reason why, notwithstanding all our weaknesses, and the rage of Satan, we are kept and preserved in a wicked world; we are compassed round about.”  John Bunyan (1628-1688)

“In the matter of faith all the pious, from the beginning, looked to the Messiah; to whom also we, in these last days, must look; for He is the foundation not only of the apostles, but also of the prophets.  Eph. 2:20.—Divine worship, humility, righteousness, faithfulness, and many other virtues, have been common in the ancient church as well as now in the last church.”  Thieleman J. van Braght  (1625-1664)

“I have sinned;” and as in the parable, the Father’s heart moved toward his prodigal son when he was yet a long way off, so David found that his Father was ready to forgive—“I said, I will confess.’  And “thou tookest away the guilt of my sin.”  Psalm 32.  J.J. Stewart Perowne  (1823-1904)

“His perplexities are such as he cannot believe any living soul is exercised with; the fiery darts which are cast into his mind by the Wicked One are such as he thinks no child of God has ever experienced; the darkness of his soul, the unbelief and infidelity of his heart, and the workings of his powerful corruptions, are such as he supposes none ever knew but himself.  It is this walking “in a solitary way,’  that makes the path of trial and temptation so painful to God’s family.”  J.C. Philpot  (1802-1869)

“The set time.”  “There is a certain set time for God’s great actions.  He lets the powers of darkness have their hour, and God will take his hour.  He hath a set time for the discovery of his mercy, and he will not stay a jot beyond it.”   Stephen Charnock (1628-1680)

“Ah, the hopes that this awakens!  My wandering, wavering, unstable heart, that of itself cannot keep to one course two days together, is to seek its perseverance from God, and not in its own strength.”  Mary B.M. Duncan (1801-1900)

“It is a covenant of works, and not a covenant of grace, that suspends eternal life on what is the fruit of a man’s own strength.”  Jonathan Edwards  (1703-1758)

“The presence of God with a man is the best blessing he can receive, for it includes everything else.”  Thomas V Moore   (1779-1852)

“It might have been foreseen all along, for ‘affliction’ is no chance weed that springs up haphazard, but ‘man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.”  (Job v. 6,7)  Edgar C.S. Gibson  (1717-1795)

“Open thy mouth wide then, O Christian; stretch out thy desires to the uttermost, grasp heaven and earth in thy boundless wishes, and believe there is enough in God to afford thee full satisfaction.”  (Benjamin Beddome, 1771-1795)