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- It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a wise Spirit sitting…
- All the dark, intricate, puzzling providences at which we were sometimes so offended...we shall [one day] see to be to us, as the difficult passage…
- Look around in the world, and you may see some in every place who are objects of pity, bereaved by sad accidents of all the…
- When the world smiles upon us, and we have got a warm nest, how do we prophesy of rest and peace in those acquisitions, thinking…
- Let us consider and marvel that ever this great and blessed God should be so much concerned, as you have heard He is in all…
- When our needs are permitted to grow to an extremity, and all visible hopes fail, then to have relief given wonderfully enhances the price of…
- Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had…
- Christ [is] the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are gathered into the…
- It would much conduce to the settlement of your heart, to consider that by fretting and discontent you do yourself more injury than all your…
- What is a child, but a piece of the parent enrapt up in another skin? And yet our dearest children are but as strangers to…
- It is the duty of the saints, especially in times of straights, to reflect upon the performances of Providence for them in all the states…
- All the tears of a penitent sinner, should he shed as many as there have been fallen drops of rain since the creation, cannot wash…
- The knowledge of Christ is profound and large. All other sciences are but shadows; this is a boundless, bottomless ocean. Though something of Christ be…
- For the infinite glorious Creator of all things, to become a creature, is a mystery exceeding all human understanding.
- Surely if He would not spare His own Son one stroke, one tear, one groan, one sigh, one circumstance of misery, it can never be…
- It is a common thing for men to benumb their own arms, and make them as dead and useless by leaning too much upon them:…
- Faith, considered as a habit, is no more precious than other gracious habits are: but considered as an instrument to receive Christ and His righteousness…
- See that you receive Christ with all your heart. As there is nothing in Christ that may be refused, so there is nothing in you…
- You are not to come Christ because you are qualified, but that you may be qualified with whatever you want; and the best qualification you…
- No friend sympathizes so tenderly with his friend in affliction as does Jesus. In all our afflictions, He afflicted. He feels all our sorrows, wants…
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