Principally, this fourfold consideration you should have of [God]in yielding yourselves to Him, namely, as your Owner, your Teacher, your Ruler, and your Benefactor; and all these with the addition of Supreme, it being impossible He should have a superior, or that there should be any one above Him in any of these. And He is in some sense all these to you before you can have yielded yourselves…, but when you yield yourselves to Him, He will be all …
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Dost thou any way carry thyself indecently in God’s presence? Some there are that in the very midst of ordinances, the devil rocks them asleep; but oh! dost thou not fear that thy damnation sleeps not? – Isaac Ambrose, Looking Unto Jesus, 248 …
Of all the marks of a Christian mind, its supernatural orientation is the most important for anyone considering the collision between the Christian mind with the secular mind in the modern world. – Harry Blamires, The Christian Mind, 74 …
“God’s elect do not exist without the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. We derive all that we are not from ourselves, but from that rich Dweller in our hearts. we, His poor host, have nothing, and from our own treasury can produce not even a grain of love; but our rich Guest works in us with all His wealth. Or rather, not with His own, but with the riches of Christ’s cross-merits; and with lavish hands He spends these cross-merits …
Prayer is the language of dependence; he who prays not is endeavoring to live independently of God; this was the first curse, and continues to be the great curse of mankind. – Adam Clarke (courtesy of Roy Ingle’s blog) …
There are three circles of life: our relation to self; to our fellows; and to God. And when this is realised it is at once seen that sin and selfishness are not synonymous. Selfishness is, of course, one of the consequences and manifestations of sin, but it is not sin itself. Sin involves far more than this. The New Testament definition of sin is not selfishness, but “lawlessness.” Law is as real in the moral world as in the physical, …
A creature with no character will never originate a character. Consequently, the first inclination of the will must be given to the will when the will is made ex nihilo; and since the holy Creator cannot give to his own work a bad inclination, he must give a good one. – W.G.T. Shedd, Dogmatic Theology, Third Edition, 498. …
Temptations from the world should the less prevail with us, because it is the whole drift of religion to call us off from the world; so that if we be baptized into the spirit of our religion, we should be quite another temper, not apt to be wrought upon by temptations of this kind…What! a christian (sic)? and so worldly? a christian, and so vain and frothy? it is a contradiction. You that are carried out after the pomp and …
In our reflection upon ourselves, whom neither the promises of Heaven can allure, nor the blood and passion of Christ persuade, nor the flames of Hell affright from our sins, till the Lord, by the sweet and gracious power of His Holy Spirit, subdue and conquer the soul unto Himself. – Edward Reynolds, The Exaltation of Christ, 309. …
If we would hope to succeed in God’s work, our character and undertakings must be such as He approves. – Andrew Fuller, Works, Vol. 1, p.188. …
