 How may we know that we are rightly thankful? When we are careful to register God's mercy... Physicians say the memory is the first thing that decays; it is true in spirituals. Topics: Thankfulness, Mercy |
| A man may read the figures on the dial, but he cannot tell how the day goes unless the sun is shining on it; so we may read the Bible over, but we cannot learn to purpose till the spirit of God shine upon it and into out hearts. Topics: The Bible, Holy Spirit |
| Leave not off reading the Bible till you find your hearts warmed. Read the word, not only as a history, but labour to be affected with it. Let it not only inform you, but inflame you. "Is not my word like a fire? saith the Lord": Jer 23:29. Go not from the word till you can say as those disciples, "Did not our hearts burn within us?" Lu 24:32. Topics: The Bible, Fire |
| Jesus Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace. Had not we need then provoke ourselves to duty? Topics: The Cross |
| If Christ thought the soul was worth the shedding of His blood, well may we think it worth spending our sweat. Topics: The Cross |
| God loves a broken heart, not a divided heart. Topics: The Heart
Source: The Upright Man's Character |
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| If there be one God subsisting in three persons, then let us give equal reverence to all the persons in the Trinity. There is not more or less in the Trinity; the Father is not more God than the Son and Holy Ghost. There is an order in the Godhead, but no degrees; one person has not a majority or super eminence above another, therefore we must give equal worship to all the persons. Topics: The Trinity
Source: The Trinity. |
| The devil would have Christ prove Himself to be God, by turning stones into bread; but the Holy Ghost shows His Godhead by turning stones into flesh (Eze. 36:26). Topics: The Trinity
Source: The Trinity |
| They that deny Christ to be God, must greatly wrest, or else deny the Scripture to be the Word of God. Topics: The Trinity
Source: The Trinity. |
| There are no sins God's people are more subject to than unbelief and impatience. They are ready either to faint through unbelief, or to fret through impatience. Topics: Unbelief, Impatience
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury |
| There is but one God, and they that serve him should be one. There is nothing that would render the true religion more lovely, or make more proselytes to it, than to see the professors of it tied together with the heart strings of love. If God be one, let all that profess him be of one mind, and one heart, and thus fulfil Christ's prayer, "that they all may be one." Topics: Unity |
