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- We ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod as upon our daily bread.
- The Scripture abounds in commands and cautions for our utmost diligence in our search and inquiry as to whether we are made partakers of Christ…
- If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and decay in grace according to…
- Our great Pattern hath showed us what our deportment ought to be in all suggestions and temptations. When the devil showed Him "all the kingdoms…
- He that stands still and suffers his enemies to double blows upon him without resistance, will undoubtedly be conquered in the issue.
- In this would I live; in this would I die; upon this would I dwell in my thoughts and affections, to the withering and consumption…
- Never was sin seen to be more abominably sinful and full of provocation than when the burden of it was upon the shoulders of the…
- It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen in or upon…
- The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built…
- Let our hearts admit, “I am poor and weak. Satan is too subtle, too cunning, too powerful; he watches constantly for advantages over my soul.…
- When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead and undesirable thing. The baits…
- 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…
- 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 did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but He died for all God's elect, that they should believe.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Common experience declares how momentary and how useless are those violent fits and gusts of endeavours which proceed from fear and uncertainty, both in things…
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