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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
One should entertain no notions about justification if he does not at the same time possess the principle of sanctification.
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
Justification and sanctification are inseparable concomitants. Indeed, they are not to be confounded, but withal they ought not to be severed. Distinguished they must be, divided they cannot; and therefore they are fitly called twins in the womb of free grace.
A believer is to do nothing for justification, only believe and be saved; though the law be a rule for everyone that believes to walk by, it is not for justification. But if you do not put a difference between justification wrought by the man Christ without and sanctification wrought by the Spirit of Christ within, teaching believers their duty to their God for His love in giving Christ, you are not able to divide the word aright; but contrariwise, you corrupt the word of God and cast stumbling blocks before the people and will certainly one day most deeply smart for your folly, except you repent.
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.
Earthly inheritances are like tennis balls, which are bandied up and down from one to another and in time wear out. The creature is all shadow and vanity; it is filia noctis, like Jonah's gourd. Man can sit under its shadow but a little, little while: it soon decays and dies; it quickly fades and withers. There is a worm at the root of all earthly inheritances that will consume them in time.
O the deadly sins, the deadly temptations, the deadly judgments that idle and slothful Christians are given up to; therefore, be active, be diligent, be abundant in the work of the Lord. Idleness is the very source of sin. Standing pools gather mud and nourish and breed venomous creatures, and so do the hearts of idle and slothful Christians.
Idleness is hateful in any, but most abominable and intolerable in ministers; and sooner or later none shall pay so dear for it as such. Witness the frequent woes that are denounced in Scripture against them. Where should a soldier die but in the field? And where should a minister die but in the pulpit?
Idleness is a sin against the law of creation. God creating man to labor, the idle person violates this law, for by his idleness he casts off the authority of his Creator.
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