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Let us think that the Lord himself, who is the very living and eternal God, speaks to us by the scriptures. Let us forevermore praise the name and goodness of him, who has so faithfully, fully, and plainly granted to open to us miserable mortal men, all the means of how to live well and holy.
Heinrich Bullinger
The Decades, https://www.monergism.com/decades-ebookIndeed there is no little sin because there is no little God to sin against.
John Trapp
A Commentary on the Old and New Testaments, 5:50032K
Tell me not of your justification, unless you have also some marks of sanctification.
J.C. Ryle
Holiness, Ch3
How many a young man, never called of God, has been pressed into the ministry by well-meaning friends who had more zeal than knowledge. None may rightly count upon the divine blessing in the service of Christ unless he has been expressly set apart thereto by the Holy Spirit (Ac 13:2)
A.W. Pink
Gleanings from Elisha (18)Quotes on Pride
The proclamation of new discoveries is not always a proof of devotion to the truth, it is sometimes a tribute to self-esteem.Sacred Theology, 577
Oh, suffer me not to be wise in mine own eyes, and thereby to turn away mine ears from the words of them that are indued with spiritual wisdom; but cause me to hear counsel, and receive instruction, that I may be wise for my latter end.
4 Types of Pride: first is when someone attributes to himself the good which he has; the second, when he believes that the good is given by God, and yet for his own merits; the third, when he boasts that he has what he does not have; the fourth, when he has contempt for all others and wishes to seem unique.Moralia, bk 2, c6, n13
The smallest and meanest creatures were serviceable to the great God against the Egyptians; and shall my proud heart refuse the help of mean Christians against the enemies of my salvation?
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a half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth A Quest for Godliness (126)
Inconsistency is the sign of a failed argument.Dividing Line
If God then withdraws Himself, if in the soul of men He bear no more witness to the truth of His Word, men can no longer believe, and no apologetics, however brilliant, will ever be able to restore the blessing of faith in the ScripturePrinciples of Sacred Theology, 366
From the beginning Christianity has been a proclamation, not a thesis supported by various logical arguments. The Doctrine of God (109)
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Tell me not of your justification, unless you have also some marks of sanctification.Holiness, Ch3
The election which is not "unto sanctification" is not of God, but of the devil. The hope that does not make a man holy is no hope at all.
A regeneration that a man can have, and yet live carelessly in sin or worldliness, is a regeneration invented by uninspired theologians, but never mentioned in scripture. Holiness (Chapter 2)
What wise man will despise or deny a mine to be gold, because it hath some dross or bad earth with it? or will throw away a beast, and say it is not good meat, because it hath guts and garbage in it? The vermin of sin may sometimes crawl in a cleanly, holy person, though they be not allowed there. One act will not prove a habit, nor a few bad actions a bad person.
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The proclamation of new discoveries is not always a proof of devotion to the truth, it is sometimes a tribute to self-esteem.Sacred Theology, 577
A liberal Protestant, a liberal Catholic, and a liberal Jew can agree on almost everything, because they believe almost nothing! Proclaiming A Cross-Centered Theology (24)
A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross. The Kingdom of God in America (1937), New York: Harper and Row, 1959, p. 193
A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.
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We believe that repentance and mortification involve a real, personal turning from sin—a weakening of the lusts of the old nature, a dying to the pleasures of sin, and a growing desire for heavenly things. This flows from union with Christ in His death and resurrection, apprehended by faith.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
The Law commands us to love God with all our heart. That law required Abraham to offer his son, and Judah to return from exile— not because those acts were written in specific commandments, but because love for God requires obedience to whatever He commands. In this way, we are bound to obey God the Redeemer as well as God the Lawgiverhttps://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
Grace is not lawless. True grace is: Active and obedient, Thankful and holy, Eager to honor the Lawgiver, Concerned for the glory of the gospel, Joyful and bold in Christ, Yet tender and reverent, as if there were no gospel— And free and fearless, as if there were no curse.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
Our obedience is not a means of earning righteousness, but a response to grace, flowing from the Spirit.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
Antinomians go too far by claiming that believers are now released from all obligation to obey—as if any call to duty were legalism.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
Contrary to the Antinomian view, the moral law must still be preached as binding believers to personal obediencehttps://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
We strongly reject the Antinomian claim that God sees no adultery, lying, blasphemy, or deceit in believers, even if they commit such sins. It is true that God does not see the sins of believers as a Judge to condemn them, but He most certainly sees them as a Father who disciplines His children.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
Antinomians claim that the knowledge of actual and eternal forgiveness of sins was not revealed to the Old Testament saints— that it was a mystery hidden until the coming of the gospel. But this is false.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
The gospel does not lower the standard of perfection. It commands all that the law commands, in the same holiness and purity. "Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect," and "Be holy, for I am holy," remain gospel commands. The difference is in acceptance, not in requirement. The gospel pardons our failures, but it does not dispense with any of God's commands.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
The obedience commanded in the law as a covenant of works is the same obedience now required under the covenant of grace. The difference lies in how it is fulfilled: Under the law, it was to be performed by our own strength, out of love for God and reverence for His authority. Under the gospel, it is enabled by the grace of Christ and motivated not only by God's authority and love, but also by gratitude to a redeeming Savior.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
Christ clearly said that He did not come to free us from obedience to the least part of the law. The covenant of works is abrogated only in this respect: we are freed from the law as a means of justification and from its curse. That is as far as the Antinomian argument may go—no further.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
We do not teach that the moral law binds us merely as given by Moses, for if that were so, the ceremonial laws would bind us too —which is not the case for Christians. But we affirm that by the Ten Commandments delivered through Moses, God intended to bind all people, including Christians, to continual obedience until the end of the world.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
The law, when infused with the compelling love and gracious authority of our Redeemer, and when approached with thankfulness to Christ who ransomed us—this moral motive—still binds us to obedience. Not only because of the content of its commands, but also because of the authority of the Lawgiver.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
Glorify the Lord in your sufferings, and take His banner of love, and spread it over you. Others will follow you, if they see you strong in the Lord; their courage shall take life from your Christian carriage.The Loveliness of Christ
If contentment were here, heaven were not heaven.The Loveliness of Christ
I beseech you in the Lord Jesus, to make every day more and more of Christ, and try your growth in the grace of God, and what ground ye win daily on corruption; for travellers are day by day, either advancing farther on, and nearer home, or else they go not right about to compass their journey.The Loveliness of Christ
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