What They Said

"Let us look upon a crucified Christ, the remedy of all our miseries. His cross hath procured a crown, his passion hath expiated our transgressions. His death hath disarmed the law, his blood hath washed a believer's soul. This death is the destruction of our enemies, the spring of our happiness, and the eternal testimony of divine love."

"He (God) is unchangeable in the midst of the changeable effects of providence."

"Without the heart it is no worship. It is a stage play. It is an acting of a part without being that person, really. It is playing the hypocrite."

"Were it possible to see a picture of God, according to the fancies of men, it would be the most monstrous being, such a god that never was, nor ever can be."

"Self is the spirit of carnality;  to pretend a homage to God, and intend only the advantage of self, is rather to mock Him than worship Him.  When we believe that we ought to be satisfied, rather than God glorified, we set God below ourselves, imagine that He should submit His own honor to our advantage; we make ourselves more glorious than God, as though we were not made for him, but He hath a being only for us; this is to have a very low esteem of the majesty of God.  Whatsoever any man aims at in worship above the glory of God, that he forms as an idol to himself instead of God, and sets up a golden image, God counts not this as a worship."

"God's foreknowledge of what He will do doth not necessitate Him to do."

"We may be truly said to worship God, though we want perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we want sincerity."

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

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

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

"It is a sad thing to be a Christian at a supper, heathens in our shops, and devils in our closets."

"Without faith we are not fit to desire mercy, without humility we are not fit to receive it, without affection we are not fit to value it, without sincerity we are not fit to improve it."

"Without the heart it is no worship. It is a stage play. It is an acting of a part without being that person, really. It is playing the hypocrite."

"Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons."