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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
The 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
The service of sin is perfect slavery; the service of God is perfect liberty.
Sin, Freedom0Human 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, Study0the decline of church discipline is perhaps the most visible failure of the contemporary church. No longer concerned with maintaining purity of confession or lifestyle, the contemporary church sees itself as a voluntary association of autonomous members, with minimal moral accountability to God, much less to each other.
Church Discipline0A 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, Salvation0If 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, Sin0Take 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, Faith0the following are specific areas addressed in Scripture that require Church discipline: personal sin committed by one member against another member of the church; egregious/public moral failure; heretical teaching; divisiveness; idleness; confirmed sin among the church's leaders.
Sojourners and Strangers, 199Church Discipline0Sojourners and Strangers, 199
It has been remarked, that when discipline leaves a church, Christ goes with it
A Treatise on Church OrderChurch Discipline0A Treatise on Church Order
church discipline is a proleptic (or anticipatory) and declarative sign of the divine eschatological judgement, meted out by Jesus Christ through the church against its sinful members and sinful situations.
Sojourners and Strangers, 184Church Discipline0Sojourners and Strangers, 184
A 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
God did not consult us in making the world, yet it is well made. Why should we expect then that He should take His measures from us in governing it?
Providence0There is a burden of care in getting riches, fear in keeping them, temptations in using them, guilt in abusing them, sorrow in losing them, and a burden of account at last to be given up concerning them.
Prosperity, Riches0Prayer is the solemn and religious offering of devout acknowledgments and desires to God or a sincere representation of holy affections, with a design to give unto God the glory due unto His name thereby and to obtain from Him promised favors, and both through the Mediator.
Prayer0If covetousness reigns in the heart, commonly all compassion is banished from it.
Coveting0Those that are of a fretful spirit will always find something to quarrel with. When we complain without cause, it is just with God to give us cause to complain.
Gems, 28Complaining0Gems, 28
Against all that I have said in behalf of discipline you will plead, "Our people are not ready for it; they will not yet bear it." But is not the meaning of this that you will not bear the trouble and hatred which it will occasion? I beseech you, in order that you may make a comfortable account to the Chief Shepherd and that you may not be found unfaithful in the house of God, that you do not shrink from duty because of the trouble that may attend it.
Reformed PastorChurch Discipline0Reformed Pastor
The neglect of discipline has a strong tendency to the deluding of souls by making men think that they are Christians when they are not because they are not separated from such as are, and by making scandalous sinners think their sin tolerable because it is so tolerated by the pastors of the church. We hereby corrupt Christianity itself in the eyes of the world and do our part to make them believe that to be a Christian is only to be of such or such an opinion, and that the Christian religion requires holiness no more than the false religions of the world.
Reformed PastorChurch Discipline0Reformed Pastor
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