What They Said

“As you cannot be married to Christ unless your affections be set on him and the things above, so you will never own him unless your affections be set on him.  It is the duty of all the saints to own Christ, his ways, his truths, his ordinances : " He that is ashamed of me before men, him will I be ashamed of before my Father which is in heaven," saith Christ.  Now look what that is which a man doth much affect, that he will own and not be ashamed of; but if a man doth not affect a thing, he will not own it, but will be ashamed of it; but we must own Christ here, or he will not own us hereafter. Surely, therefore, it is very fit and necessary that our affections be set on Christ and the things above.”

William Bridge