We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love. - John Owen (on the Puritan Hard Drive, ow.ly/ycUbq). Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs. - Jonathan Edwards (on the Puritan Hard Drive, ow.ly/dZ3ua). Christ is the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are gathered into the ocean, which is the meeting-place of all the waters in the world, so Christ is that ocean in which all true delights and pleasures meet. - John Flavel (on the Puritan Hard Drive, ow.ly/dZ3ua). Unfathomable oceans of grace are in Christ for you. Dive and dive again -- you will never come to the bottom of these depths! - Robert Murray McCheyne (on the Puritan Hard Drive ow.ly/dZ3ua) For every look at self--take ten looks at Christ! - Robert Murray McCheyne (on the Puritan Hard Drive ow.ly/dZ3ua) All things considered, certainly it is no small condemnation of us to behold what an ardent zeal the holy martyrs had in the past, especially in comparison with the nonchalance we demonstrate. For as soon as a poor man of that time got so much as a little taste of the true knowledge of God, he did not hesitate to expose himself to the danger involved in confessing his faith. He would have preferred to be burned alive than to go so far as to commit some outward act of idolatry. - John Calvin (on the Puritan Hard Drive ow.ly/dZ3ua) Where will all of our worldly enjoyments be, when we are laid in the silent grave? Resolved, to live as I shall wish I had done, when I come to die. Resolved, to live as I shall wish I had done, ten thousand ages hence. - Jonathan Edwards (on the Puritan Hard Drive, ow.ly/dZ3ua). Power is Gods hand or arm, omniscience is Gods eye, mercy is Gods delight, eternity is Gods duration, but holiness is Gods beauty! - Stephen Charnock (on the Puritan Hard Drive ow.ly/dZ3ua) Luther said he feared his own heart, more than Pope or Cardinal. The heart is the fomenter of sin. It mints evil thoughts-and blows up the coals of fiery passions. It is the Trojan horse out of which comes a whole army of lusts! Shall we not fight the good fight, and discharge with the fire of zeal against this bosom traitor, the flesh! The primitive Christians chose rather to be destroyed by lions without-than by lusts within! - Thomas Watson (on the Puritan Hard Drive ow.ly/dZ3ua) They who love any thing better than Christ are not worthy of him. - Covenanter field Minister James Renwick, on the day of his martyrdom (on the Puritan Hard Drive ow.ly/dZ3ua) The sinner may live in a calm--but he will die in a storm of wrath! - Thomas Watson (on the Puritan Hard Drive ow.ly/dZ3ua) Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until it be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death. - John Owen, on the Puritan Hard Drive, ow.ly/dZ3ua. Prayer is not overcoming Gods reluctance, but laying hold of His willingness. - Martin Luther (on the Puritan Hard Drive, ow.ly/dZ3ua). The enjoyment of [God] is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of earthly friends, are but shadows; but God is the substance. - Jonathan Edwards (on the Puritan Hard Drive, ow.ly/dZ3ua). Afflictions are as needful as ordinances. - Thomas Watson (on the Puritan Hard Drive, ow.ly/dZ3ua). Knowledge is mans excellency above the beasts that perish (Ps. 32:9). The knowledge of Christ is the Christians excellency above the Heathen (1 Cor. 1:23, 24). Practical and saving knowledge of Christ is the sincere Christians excellency above the self-cozening hypocrite (Heb. 6:4, 6). But methodical and well-digested knowledge of Christ is the strong Christians excellency above the weak (Heb. 5:12, 13, 14). A saving, though an immethodical knowledge of Christ, will bring us to heaven (John 17:2) but a regular and methodical, as well as a saving knowledge of him, will bring heaven to us (Col. 2:2, 3). For such is the excellency thereof, even above all other knowledge of Christ, that it renders the understanding judicious, the memory tenacious, and the heart highly and fixedly joyous (1:21). - John Flavel, The Fountain of Life Opened Up: A Display of Christ in His Essential and Mediatorial Glory from Flavels Six Volume Works on the PURITAN HARD DRIVE, ow.ly/dZ3ua. Take heed of all occasions of idolatry, for idolatry is devil-worship. Psalm 106: 37. If you search through the whole Bible, there is not one sin that God has more followed with plagues than idolatry. The Jews have a saying, that in every evil that befalls them, there is uncia aurei vituli, an ounce of the golden calf in it. Hell is a place for idolaters. For without are idolaters. Rev 22: 15. Senesius calls the devil a rejoicer at idols, because the image-worshippers help to fill hell. - Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments (emphases added), on the Puritan Hard Drive, ow.ly/dZ3ua. By all which, you see where the idolatry of worship lies. The instituting of any, though the smallest part of worship, in and by our own authority, without scripture-warrant, makes it idolatrous, as well as if we worshipped an idol (Ex: 20:5). - John Flavel, The Works of John Flavel, Vol, 4. p. 527 (on the Puritan Hard Drive, ow.ly/dZ3ua). Affliction brings out graces that cannot be seen in a time of health. It is the treading of the grapes that brings out the sweet juices of the vine; so it is affliction that draws forth submission, weanedness from the world, and complete rest in God. Use afflictions while you have them. - R. M. MCheyne (on the Puritan Hard Drive, ow.ly/dZ3ua). See how happy are Gods saints at their death! They go to a kingdom! They see Gods face, which shines ten thousand times brighter than the sun in its meridian glory! They enter eternal glory, which is the quintessence of all delights! - Thomas Watson (on the Puritan Hard Drive, ow.ly/dZ3ua). Now, Christians, the more great and glorious things you expect from God, as the downfall of antichrist, the conversion of the Jews, the conquest of the nations to Christ, the breaking of all yokes, the new Jerusalems coming down from above, the extraordinary pouring out of the Spirit, and a more general union among all saints, the more holy, yea, the more eminently holy in all your ways and actings it becomes you to be. - Thomas Brooks, The Crown and Glory of Christianity, 1662, Complete Works (on the Puritan Hard Drive, ow.ly/dZ3ua), 1867, p. 444 We trust as we love, and where we love. If we love Christ much, surely we shall trust him much. - Thomas Brooks (on the Puritan Hard Drive, ow.ly/dZ3ua) Justified by faith is he who, excluded from the righteousness of works, grasps the righteousness of Christ through faith, and clothed in it, appears in Gods sight not as a sinner but as a righteous man. Therefore, we explain justification simply as the acceptance with which God receives us into his favor as righteous men. And we say that it consists in the remission of sins and the imputation of Christs righteousness. - John Calvin (on the Puritan Hard Drive, ow.ly/dZ3ua) NOT TO PRAY IS A SIN MOST ODIOUS. O! why cease we then to call instantly to his mercy, having his commandment so to do? Above all our iniquities, we work manifest contempt and despising of him, when, by negligence, we delay to call for his gracious support. Whoso does call upon God obeys his will, and finds therein no small consolation, knowing nothing is more acceptable to his Majesty than humble obedience (Jer. 7:23). - JOHN KNOX (on the Puritan Hard Drive, ow.ly/dZ3ua) It is said of Caesar, that he had greater care of his books than of his royal robes: for swimming through the water to escape enemies, he carried his books in his hand above the water, but lost his robes. What are Caesars books to Gods book? - Thomas Brooks (on the Puritan Hard Drive, ow.ly/dZ3ua) The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory. - Richard Sibbes (on the Puritan Hard Drive, ow.ly/dZ3ua) I would not give a penny for your love to the truth if it is not accompanied with a hearty hatred of error. - Charles Spurgeon (on the Puritan Hard Drive, ow.ly/dZ3ua) Only one life, twill soon be past. Only whats done for Christ will last. And when I am dying , how happy Ill be, if the lamp of my life has been burned out for thee. - Anonymous I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth. - Martin Luther (on the Puritan Hard Drive, ow.ly/dZ3ua) The venerable dead await me in my library to relieve me of the nonsense of surviving mortals. - Samuel Davies (on the Puritan Hard Drive, ow.ly/dZ3ua)
Posted on: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 05:02:36 +0000