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• Assurance encourateth us in our combat; it delivers us not from it. We may have peace with God when we have done from the assaults… Assault
• A river continually fed by a living fountain may as soon end its streams before it come to the ocean, as a stop be put… Continually
• No heart can conceive that treasury of mercies which lies in this one privilege, in having liberty and ability to approach unto God at all… Ability
• It is a throne of grace that God in Christ is represented to us upon; but yet is is a throne still whereon majesty and… Christ
• Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but He died for all God's elect, that they should believe. All
• Whatever vices and corruptions men see in the lives of their ministers will not be attributed to the depravity of their old nature which still… Abides
• Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth. All
• We must not be concerned only with that which troubles us, but with all that troubles God. All
• Sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet. Inspirational
• I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend. Always Mend
• Leanness of body and soul may go together. Body
• No wonder if such persons look upon imputed righteousness as the shadow of a dream, who esteem those things which evidence its necessity to be… All
• To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god. When the physician… Angel
• This day was yesterday to-morrow nam'd: To-morrow shall be yesterday proclaimed: To-morrow not yet come, not far away, What shall to-morrow then be call'd? To-day. Day
• All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain. All
• It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened. Afraid
• There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God’s sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience... All
• On Christ’s glory I would fix all my thoughts and desires, and the more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted… All
• Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never… All
• To suppose that whatever God requireth of us that we have power of ourselves to do, is to make the cross and grace of Jesus… Christ

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