The Holy Ghost must come upon us, and the power of the Highest must overthrow us, before that holy thing can be begotten, and Christ be formed in us. Henry Scougal
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Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation! I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me will I give him a command to take the spoil and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the […]
Conformed to His Image
How can there be a conformity to God in affection, without a conformity to his holiness? Stephen Charnock
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This is the case of the manslayer, that shall flee there and live: whoever kills his neighbor unawares, and didn’t hate him in time past; as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the […]
Captain of Our Souls
The soul is like a ship in a narrow river which does not have room to turn. It is always running aground and foundering in the shallows. But Jesus Christ is in every way sufficient to the vast desires of the soul; in him it has sea-room enough. In him the soul may spread its […]
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“One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death, but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee. Exodus 21:12-13 (WEB)
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The men of Kiriath Jearim came, and fetched up the ark of the LORD, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the LORD. It happened, from the day that the ark stayed in Kiriath Jearim, that the time was long; for […]
He Must Increase I must decrease
The glory of God’s wisdom is exalted, and the pride of the imaginations of men is proportionally debased. And in these two consists the real foundation of all religion in our souls. John Owen
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Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; the LORD of Armies is his name. Jeremiah 31:35
Persevere in the Gospel
How great then is the folly, and how contemptible are the judgments of all carnal men, and how little need have we to be discouraged by their sneers or insults! That man must be foolish or mad, that knows no difference between Dirt and Gold. Richard Baxter