What They Said

“ Assurance is not essential to salvation, but it is essential to the joy of salvation.”

"He that knows nothing will believe anything."

"Partial obedience is not obedience at all; to single out easy things that do not oppose our lusts, which are not against our reputation, therein some will do more than they need; but our obedience must be universal to all God's commandments, and that because He commands it. Empty relationships are nothing; if we profess ourselves God's servants and do not honour Him by our obedience, we take but an empty title."

“The immoral hate the moral; the ungodly hate the godly; the unproductive hate the productive; and those who want the world to give them a living hate those whose lives make clear that their way is false.”

"The permanence of God's character guarantees the fulfillment of his promises."

"As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two."

"Heresy is the leporasy of the head."

“We find the same rules for our actions, the same duties required, the same sins forbidden in the Gospel as in the law.”

“He hideth our unrighteousness with His righteousness, He covereth our disobedience with His obedience, He shadoweth our death with His death, that the wrath of God cannot find us.”

"All in the church may hear the Word of Christ, but few hear Christ in the Word."

“There are three things in providence; God’s foreknowing, God’s determining, and God’s directing all things to their periods and events.
 

“For the most part we live upon successes, not promises:- unless we see and feel the print of victories, we will not believe.”

"Ministers are not cooks, but physicians and therefore should not study to delight the palate, but to recover the patient."

The Law by which God rules us, is as dear to Him as the Gospel by which He saves us."

"Let us, then, have it fixed down in our minds that the sinfulness of man does not begin from without, but from within. It is not the result of bad training in early years. It is not picked up from bad companions and bad examples, as some weak Christians are too fond of saying. No! It is a family disease, which we all inherit from our first parents, Adam and Eve, and with which we are born."

“We should bring our children with us to the publick teaching, so may our private teaching prove profitable. Oftentimes divine truths are as nails, one teaching sets them in, and the other teaching fastens them; one plants and the other waters, and so of both God gives increase."

"Moreover, as God respects no person, so He respects no condition upon which He gives salvation to us."

"The Law, though it have no power to condemn us, hath power to command us."

“As the apple is not the cause of the apple tree, but a fruit of it; even so good works are not the cause of our salvation, but a sign and a fruit of the same.”

"Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness."

"Woman was taken out of man; not out of his head to top him, nor out of his feet to be trampled underfoot; but out of his side to be equal to him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be loved."