William Ames on Sanctification

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, October 31, 2012 at 7:30 AM


"Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image."
Williams Ames


Samuel Rutherford on Contentment in Christ

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at 7:30 AM

"Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself."
Samuel Rutherford


George Hutcheson on Divisions

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, October 29, 2012 at 7:30 AM

"Division is better than agreement in evil."
George Hutcheson

Stephen Charnock on God

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, October 26, 2012 at 7:30 AM

"It is visible that God is, it is invisible what He is."
Stephen Charnock


John Owen on the Love of Christ

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, October 25, 2012 at 7:30 AM

"We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love."
John Owen


Thomas Watson on Malice

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 at 7:30 AM

"Malice is mental murder."
Thomas Watson



Stephen Charnock on Duty

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, October 23, 2012 at 7:30 AM

"If we once become listless in duty, we shall quickly become lifeless in it."
Stephen Charnock


John Bunyan on Prayer

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, October 22, 2012 at 9:14 AM

"Pray often; for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan."
John Bunyan


Ezekiel Hopkins on the Lord's Day

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, October 19, 2012 at 7:30 AM

"God sanctifies it by consecration, we sanctify it by devotion."
Ezekiel Hopkins

Thomas Brooks on Sin

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 7:30 AM

"Those sins that seem most sweet in life, will prove most bitter in death."
Thomas Brooks


John Boys on Christians

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 at 7:30 AM

"The weak Christian is willing to live and patient to die;  but the strong, patient to live and willing to die"
John Boys



Samuel Bolton on Sin

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 7:54 AM


"All other evils do not make a man the subject of God’s wrath and hatred. A man may have all other evils and yet be in the love of God. You may be poor and yet precious in God’s esteem. You may be under all kinds of miseries and yet dear in God’s thoughts. But sin is an evil that makes the soul the subject of God’s wrath and hatred. The absence of all other goods, the presence of all created evils will not make you hateful to God if sin is not there; so the presence of all other goods and the absence of all other evils will not render you lovely if sin is there."
Samuel Bolton


John Owen on the Old and New Testaments

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Monday, October 15, 2012 at 7:31 AM

"Old Testament examples are New Testament instructions."
John Owen


Stephen Charnock on Assurance

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, October 12, 2012 at 8:00 AM

"Assurance is the fruit that grows out of the root of faith."
Stephen Charnock


Henry Smith on the Atonement

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 8:00 AM

"All are not saved by Christ's death, but all which are saved, are saved by Christ's death;  His death is sufficient to save all, as the sun is sufficient to to light all; but if any wink, the sun will not give him light."
Henry Smith


Nehemiah Rogers on Humility

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 7:46 AM

"Humility is the repentance of Pride"
Nehemiah Rodgers


Daniel Cawdrey on God's Wrath

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at 8:00 AM


"As we do not cease to hate a young wolf although that he hath not yet worried any sheep, or a young serpent, notwithstanding that it hath not yet cast forth its venom, but do judge them worthy of death because of the perverse nature that is in them: so ought we to esteem that God hath no less occasion to condemn us, even from our mother's womb, because of our perversity and natural malice engendered within us. And though the Lord should damn us eternally, He should do us no wrong, but only that which our nature deserveth; for although the young infant hath not yet done any work which we may judge to be evil, since he hath not yet the understanding or the power to do it, yet it followeth not therefore but that the perversity which is natural in man hath already its root in him as one part of his paternal inheritance, the which cannot please God; for although it bringeth not forth its fruits, yet they do remain still there, as in their root, which will bring them forth in its time—as the venom is already in a serpent, although he bite not, and the nature of a wolf in a young wolf, how harmless soever he seemeth to be,…."
Daniel Cawdrey
(1588–1664)

William Secker on Conversion

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, October 8, 2012 at 8:00 AM

"Many think not of living  any holier, till they can live no longer."
William Secker


Thomas Watson on Death and Sin

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Friday, October 5, 2012 at 8:00 AM

"Let them fear death who do not fear sin."
Thomas Watson


Henry Smith on Excuses for Sin

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 8:00 AM

"A sin is two sins when it is defended."
Henry Smith


Thomas Adams on Good Works and Faith

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 at 8:00 AM

"Naked faith is no faith."
Thomas Adams


William Jenkyn on Truth

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, October 2, 2012 at 8:00 AM

"Truth reforms as well as informs."
William Jenkyn


John Trap on Sin

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, October 1, 2012 at 7:11 AM

"If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his ears."
John Trapp