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- Whatsoever we have over-loved, idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to see the vanity of it;…
- 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…
- To keep the heart then, is carefully to preserve it from sin which disorders it; and maintain that spiritual and gracious frame, which fits it…
- Let us see that our knowledge of Christ be not a powerless, barren, unpractical knowledge: O that, in its passage from our understanding to our…
- 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…
- Whatever be the ground of one's distress, it should drive him to, not from God.
- 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…
- 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…
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