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A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.
Theology, Knowledge, Ignorance0All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.
Prayer0What a wonder that two natures infinitely distant should be more intimately united than anything in the world... That the same person should have both a glory and a grief; an infinite joy in the Deity, and an inexpressible sorrow in the humanity; that a God upon a throne should be an infant in a cradle; the thundering Creator be a weeping babe and a suffering man;
Incarnation0A God of unmixed blessedness is linked personally with a man of...sorrows: life incapable to die, joined to a body in that economy incapable to live without dying first; infinite purity, and a reputed sinner; eternal blessedness with a cursed nature, Almightiness and weakness, omniscience and ignorance, immutability and changeableness, incomprehensibleness and comprehensibility; that which cannot be comprehended, and that which can be comprehended; that which is entirely independent, and that which is totally dependent; the Creator forming all things, and the creature made, met together to a personal union; "The word made flesh
Incarnation0Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience His eye, mercy His bowels, eternity His duration, but holiness is His beauty
God's Attributes0The best man is more unworthy to receive anything from God than the worst can be to receive from us.
Grace0is it not a folly for an atheist to deny that which is the reason and common sentiment of the whole world, to strip himself of humanity, run counter to his own conscience, prefer a private before a universal judgment, give the lie to his own nature and reason, assert things impossible to be proved, nay, impossible to be acted, forge irrationalities for the support of his fancy against the common persuasion of the world, against himself, and against so much of God as is manifest in him and every man (Rom. 1:19)?
Atheism0Shall a silly passenger, that understands not the use of a compass, be angry that the skillfull pilot will not steer the vessel according to his pleasure?
God's Wisdom, Providence0The greatest punishment inflicted upon Christ, when he stood as a sacrifice for sin, was not the act of men, but the act of God
Cross, Gospel0The great objection of a penitent is, I have sinned, and I know not whether God will receive me: consider, God knows your sin better than you do, yet he kindly calls to you, and promises you as good a reception as if you had never sinned.
Sin, Grace0Conscience is the foundation of all religion, and the two pillars upon which it is built are the being of God and the bounty of God to those who diligently seek him (Heb. 11:6).
Attributes, On God's ExistenceConscience0Attributes, On God's Existence
Without owning a God as the first cause of the world, no man can give any tolerable or satisfactory account of the world to his own reason.
Attributes, On God's ExistenceReason, Existence of God0Attributes, On God's Existence
a man may as well doubt whether there be a sun when he sees his beams gliding the earth as doubt whether there be a God when he sees his works spread in the world
Attributes, Discourse 1Existence of God0Attributes, Discourse 1
When you hear men calling upon God in a time of affrighting thunder, you cannot imagine that the fear of thunder did first introduce the notion of a God, but it implies that it was before apprehended by them or stamped upon them.
On God\'s ExistenceExistence of God, Fear0On God\'s Existence
that principle of a greedy desire to be uncontrolled in their lusts -which induces men to a denial of providence
Existence and Attributes of God, Discourse 1Providence, Wickedness, Sin0Existence and Attributes of God, Discourse 1
a fool is one who has lost his wisdom and right notion of God and divine things, which were communicated to man by creation
Existence and Attributes of God, Discourse 1Atheism0Existence and Attributes of God, Discourse 1
The psalmist lays all the evil, tyranny, lust, and persecutions of men (as if the world were only for their sake) upon their neglect of God and the atheism cherished in the hearts.
Existence and Attributes of God, Discourse 1Atheism0Existence and Attributes of God, Discourse 1
Love is a commanding affection, a uniting grace; it draws all the faculties of the soul to one center. The soul that loves God, when it hath to do with Him, is bound to the beloved object; it can mind nothing else during such impressions. When the affection is set to the worship of God, everything the soul hath will be bestowed upon it.
Love0The law is tempered by the gospel but not nulled and cast out of doors by it. It enacts that none but those that are sanctified shall be glorified; that there must be grace here if we expect glory hereafter; that we must not presume to expect an admittance to the vision of God's face unless our souls be clothed with a robe of holiness (Heb. 12:14). It requires an obedience to the whole law in our intention and purpose and an endeavor to observe it in our actions; it promotes the honor of God and ordains a universal charity among men; it reveals the whole counsel of God and furnishes men with the holiest laws.
The Law0The commands of the gospel require the obedience of the creature. There is not one precept in the gospel which interferes with any rule in the law, but strengthens it and represents it in its true exactness; the heat to scorch us is allayed, but the light to direct us is not extinguished. Not the least allowance to any sin is granted; not the least affection to any sin is indulged.
The Law0Holiness can no more approve of sin than it can commit it. To be delighted with the evil in another's act contracts a guilt, as well as the commission of it; for approbation of a thing is a consent to it.
Holiness0He could not be Lord of any man as a happy creature if He did not, by His power, make them happy; and He could not make them happy unless, by His grace, He made them holy.
Holiness0When God seems to be turning a man into a desolate and ruinous heap, yet even then is He building and preparing him to be a more excellent structure. The gardener digs up his garden, pulls up his fences, takes up his plants, and, to the eye, seems to make a pleasant place as a waste. But we know he is about to mend it, not to mar; to plant it better and not to destroy it. So God is present even in desertions, and though He seem to annihilate or to reduce His new creation into a confused chaos, yet it is to repair its ruins and to make it more beautiful and more strong.
God's Withholding0How sad and strange soever thy condition may seem to be, thou art not the first nor art like to be the last of the friends and saints of God whose condition this hath been or may be. Read but over the book of the Psalms. How often do you find there the saints complaining of God's hiding His face from them; casting them out, casting them off, forsaking, forgetting them; shutting out their prayers, and the like? Now this may be some comfort to thee, as it is to a man that is in a wilderness, to find the tract and footsteps of men that have gone that way before.
God's Withholding0There may be a time when God will not be found, but no time wherein He must not be trusted.
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