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• 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
• The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he… Believe
• Sin also carries on its war by entangling the affections and drawing them into an alliance against the mind. Grace may be enthroned in the… Affection
• When we realize a constant enemy of the soul abides within us, what diligence and watchfulness we should have! How woeful is the sloth and… Abides
• He can make the dry parched ground of my soul to become a pool and my thirsty barren heart as springs of water. Yes he… Abominable
• The love of God is like himself – equal, constant, not capable of augmentation or diminution; our love is like ourselves – unequal, increasing, waning,… Augmentation
• The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when Christian doctrine is… Believe
• We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love. Amazement
• And as men diversions increase from the world, so do their entanglements from Satan. When they have more to do in the world than they… Diversion
• The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever. Better
• the whole Pelagian poison of free-will ... a clear exaltation of the old idol free-will into the throne of God ... That the decaying estate… Christianity
• Free will is "corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds" Beloved
• All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less. All
• The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh. Comfort
• After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes. Causes
• How can we possibly believe the promises concerning Heaven, immortality, and glory, when we do not believe the promises concerning our present life? And how… Assurance

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