A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction
I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.
The name of Christ excludes all merit of our own.
We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.
But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.
it must be plain also that we should not anxiously strive for riches and honors by relying on our own diligence or cleverness or by depending on the favor of men or by trusting in the notion of good luck, but that we should always expect the Lord to direct us to the lot he has provided for us.
For until men recognize that they owe everything to God, that they are nourished by His fatherly care, that He is the Author of their every good, that they should seek nothing beyond Him - they will never yield Him willing service. Nay, unless they establish their complete happiness in Him, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to Him.
Scripture urges and warns us that whatever favors we may have obtained from the Lord, we have received them as a trust on condition that they should be applied to the common benefit of the church.
If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.
But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the church. As if the eternal and inviolable truth of God depended upon the decision of men!
We are promised abundance of all good things--yet we are rich only in hunger and thirst. What would become of us if we did not take our stand on hope, and if our heart did not hasten beyond this world!
The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart.
Free will is an empty term.
The cross of Christ only triumphs in the breast of believers over the devil and the flesh, sin and sinners, when their eyes are directed to the power of His Resurrection.
But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.
To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for pomp and empty display, that is our furious passion and our unbounded desire.On the other hand, we fear and abhor poverty, obscurity, and humility, and we seek to avoid them by all possible means.
Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship.
Christ's intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation.
Faith is tossed about by various doubts, so that the minds of the godly are rarely at peace.
The more closely we see ourselves being watched by our enemies, the more time intent we should be to avoid their slanders.
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.
All the more vile is the stupidity of those persons who open heaven to all the impious and unbelieving without the grace of Him whom Scripture commonly teaches to be the only door whereby we enter into salvation.
Unless we endeavor to do good to our neighbor, through our cruelty we transgress this law
It is certain that not one drop of rain falls without God's sure command.
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