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• God hath work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties and entanglements, is to cast off His authority. It… Asleep
• There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed upon. It will always be so while we live in… Constant
• There are two things that are suited to humble the souls of men, and they are, first, a due consideration of God, and then of… Abject
• It is the Spirit alone that can mortify sin; he is promised to do it, and all other means without him are empty and vain.… All
• For to pretend that men may live habitually sinful lives without any attempt by the Spirit to mortify sin in them, nor with any desire… Any
• If the Word does not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us. Doe
• We speak much of God, and talk of him, his ways, his works; the truth is, we know very little of him. God
• Pardon comes not to the soul alone; or rather, Christ comes not to the soul with pardon only! It is that which He opens the… Alone
• Satan's greatest success is in making people think they have plenty of time before they die to consider their eternal welfare. Consider
• What do we want? What would we be at? What do our souls desire? Is it not that we might have a more full, clear,… Christ
• He that is more frequent in his pulpit to his people than he is in his closet for his people, is but a sorry watchman. Church
• There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty. Beam
• A true saving knowledge of sin is to be had only in the Lord Christ: in him may we see the desert of our iniquities. Christ
• Christ so loves his people that he sings with joy over them. Christ
• The root of an unmortified course is the digestion of sin without bitterness in the heart. Bitterness
• 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

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