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The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.
Purity, Unity, Church0It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith and resolution to swim against a stream to heaven, and to appear for God when no one else appears for Him.
Matthew Henry's CommentaryFaith, Religion0Matthew Henry's Commentary
How easy it is to read the Scriptures and give a kind of nominal assent to the truth and yet never to appropriate what it tells us!
Scripture0The way of family worship is a good old way, no new thing, but the ancient usage of the saints.
Commentary Gen 12:6Family Worship0Commentary Gen 12:6
Do not look for the Church nearest to your house. Look for the Church closest to the Bible.
Scripture0The service of sin is perfect slavery; the service of God is perfect liberty.
Sin, Freedom0O my soul, is it possible for thee to hear the excellency of Scripture thus opened to thee, and not to burn in love to it? Hast thou been all this while in such a host bath, and still cold and shivering?
The Christian Man\'s CallingScripture0The Christian Man\'s Calling
Human learning is both ornamental and serviceable to a gospel minister, especially for the convincing of those who are outside; for it enables him to beat them at their own weapons, and to cut off Goliath's head with his own sword.
Learning, Thinking, Study0A Christian without a Bible is a soldier without a weapon.
The Christian\'s Reasonable Service 1:76Scripture0The Christian\'s Reasonable Service 1:76
God will condemn those by his Word, who will not judge themselves by it.
Scripture0We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.
Scripture0A life spent in the service of God and communion with Him is the most pleasant life that anyone can live in this world.
Presence of God, Serving0He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.
Heaven, Death, Fear0Behold, and wonder, that the great God should love such a worthless world! That the holy God should love such a wicked world with a love of good will, when he could not look upon it with any complacency.
God's Love, Salvation0The body of Scripture is a doctrine sufficient to live well. It comprehends many holy sciences of which one is principal, and the others are handmaids or attendants.
https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/sdg/perkins/A%20Golden%20Chain%20-%20William%20Perkins.pdfScripture0If God does not give His people what they ask for, it is because He knows they do not need it, and that it is not for their good.
Prayer0Our temptations, if not yielded to, are not sins; they are afflictions only.
Affliction, Temptation, Sin0Christians need to remember that the sufficiency of Scripture gives us a comprehensive worldview that equips us to wrestle with even the most challenging ethical dilemmas of our time.
Scripture0Take Jesus for your king, and by baptism swear allegiance to him; take him for your prophet, and hear him; take him for your priest, to make atonement for you.
Jesus, Baptism0No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has
become his interest that there should be none to call him to account.
Atheism0It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.
Church, Faith0In short, I will preach it [the Word], teach it, write it, but I will constrain no man by force, for faith must come freely without compulsion. Take myself as an example. I opposed indulgences and all the papists, but never with force. I simply taught, preached, and wrote God's Word; otherwise I did nothing. And while I slept, or drank Wittenberg beer with my friends Philip and Amsdorf, the Word so greatly weakened the papacy that no prince or emperor ever inflicted such losses upon it. I did nothing; the Word did everything.
Scripture0A modest dress is a very good thing, if it be the genuine indication of a humble heart, and is to instruct; but it is a bad thing if it be the hypocritical disguise of a proud ambitious heart, and is to deceive. Let men be really as good as they seem to be, but not seem to be better than really they are.
Matthew Henry's CommentaryModesty, Hypocrisy0Matthew Henry's Commentary
The collapse in evangelical doctrinal consensus is intimately related to the collapse in the understanding of, and role assigned to, Scripture as God's Word spoken within the church.
Reformation: Yesterday, Today and TomorrowScripture0Reformation: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Many have and many do miserably pervert the Scriptures by turning them into vain and groundless allegories. Some wanton wits have expounded Paradise to be the soul, man to be the mind, the woman to be the sense, the serpent to be delight, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil to be wisdom, and the rest of the trees to be the virtues and endowments of the mind. O friends! It is dangerous to bring in allegories where the Scripture doth not clearly and plainly warrant them and to take those words figuratively which should be taken properly.
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