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saints have chosen to suffer the worst of torments, rather than commit the least sin
Thomas Brooks
Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices11.1K
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there is something far more dreadful than physical calamity and suffering, namely, moral delinquency and spiritual apostasy. Alas, that this is so rarely perceived today!The Life of Elijah. Chapel Library.
The damned shall live as long in hell as God himself shall live in heaven.
Pirates do not use to set upon poor empty vessels; and beggars need not fear the thief. Those that have most of God, and are most rich in grace— shall be most assaulted by Satan, who is the greatest and craftiest pirate in the world.
God will have nothing to do with proud persons, he will never dwell with them, he will never keep house with them.
He that dwells in the highest heavens, will never dwell in a haughty heart.
A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven.
Oh, then be ashamed, Christians, that worldlings are more studious and industrious to make sure of pebbles, than you are to make sure of pearls.
For a close, remember this, that your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all!Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices
There are none that walk so close with God all the six days, as those that keep closest to God on the seventh day.
There are many now in hell who have had a great confidence of going to heaven.
Sin always dies most where faith lives most. The most believing soul is the most mortified soul.
The least sin is contrary to the law of God, the nature of God, the being of God, and the glory of God
Sin so bewitches the soul, that it makes the soul call evil good, and good evil; bitter sweet and sweet bitter, light darkness and darkness light
The main reason why men dote upon the world, and damn their souls to get the world, is, because they are not acquainted with a greater glory!Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices
Afflictions are God's furnace, by which he cleanses his people from their dross. Affliction is a fire to purge out our dross, and to make virtue shine. Afflictions are medicines which heal soul diseases, better than all the remedies of physicians.Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices
Of all Christians, none so mortified as those in whom grace is most exercised. Sin is a viper that must be killed or it will kill you forever, and there is no way to kill it but by the exercise of grace.
It is sad to consider how few professors in these days have attained the right way of mortifying sin. They usually go out against their sins in the strength of their own purposes, prayers, and resolutions and scarcely look so high as a crucified Christ. They mind not the exercise of their faith upon Christ, and therefore it is a righteous thing with Christ that after all they should be carried away captive by their sins. Nothing eats out sin like the actings of grace; nothing weakens and wastes the strength of sin like the exercise of grace. O did men believe more in Christ, sin would die more. Did they believe the threatenings more, sin would die more. Did they believe the promises more, sin would die more. Did they believe in reigning with Christ more, sin would die more.
Look upon a rabbit's skin, how well it comes off till it comes to the head, but then what hauling and pulling is there before it stirs! So it is in the mortifying, in the crucifying of sin. A man may easily subdue and mortify such and such sins, but when it comes to the head sin, to the master sin, to the bosom sin, O what tugging and pulling is there, what striving and struggling is there, to get off that sin, to get down that sin!
Mercies make a humble soul glad but not proud. A humble soul is lowest when his mercies are highest. He is least when he is greatest. He is lowest when he is highest. He is most poor when he is most rich. Nothing melts like mercy; nothing draws like mercy; nothing humbles like mercy
There is nothing in the world renders a man more unlike a saint and more like Satan than to argue from mercy to sinful liberty; from divine goodness to licentiousness. This is the devil's logic.
Justification and sanctification are inseparable companions; distinguished they must be, but divided they can never be. Where sin is pardoned, the gift of sanctity is still conferred. It is weakness, it is wickedness, for a man to conclude that he is in an elected and justified state when he has nothing, when he has not the least thing to evidence himself to be in a sanctified state. Both justification and sanctification have had a necessary respect to the salvation of all those that shall go to heaven.
O sirs! The same Spirit that witnesses to a Christian in his justification can shine upon his graces and witness to him his sanctification as well as his justification, and without all controversy, it is as much the office of the Spirit to witness to a man his sanctification as it is to witness to him his justification (1 Cor. 2:12; 1 John 4:13–14).
Sanctification and justification are both of them benefits of the covenant of grace, and therefore to evidence the one by the other can be no turning aside to the covenant of works (Jer. 33:8–9; Heb. 8:10, 12). You may run and read in the covenant of grace that he that is justified is also sanctified, and he that is sanctified is also justified; and therefore, why may not he that knows himself to be really sanctified upon that very ground safely and boldly conclude that he is certainly justified.
Godly sorrow is not an enemy but a friend to holy joy. I have read of a holy man who, lying upon his sickbed and being asked which were his joyfulest days that ever he had, cried out, "O give me my mourning days, give me my mourning days again, for they were the joyfulest days that ever I had." The higher the springs of godly sorrow rise, the higher the tides of holy joy rise; his graces will flourish most who evangelically mourns most. Grace always thrives best in that garden (that heart) that is watered most with the tears of godly sorrow. He that grieves most for sin will rejoice most in God, and he that rejoices most in God will grieve most for sin.
Keep a diary of all your closet experiences. Carefully record and book down all your closet mercies. Be often reading over and meditating upon your closet experiences. There is no way like this to inflame and engage your hearts in this secret trade of private prayer.
A believer's inheritance—his glory, his happiness, his blessedness—shall be as fresh and nourishing after he has been many thousand thousands of years in heaven as it was at his first entrance into it.
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