Guidance & Wisdom
The more you have of a rational knowledge of divine things, the more opportunity will there be, when the Spirit shall be breathed into your heart, to see the excellency of these things.
There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
There is a difference between having an opinion that God is holy and gracious, and having a sense of the loveliness and beauty of that holiness and grace.
If you think yourselves already converted, and that encourages you to give yourselves the greater liberty in sinning, this is a certain sign that you are not converted.
Men are not saved on the account of any work of theirs, and yet they are not saved without works.
Sinning and praying agree not well together. If a man be constant in the duty of secret prayer, it will tend to restrain him from willful sinning. So, on the other hand, if he allow himself in sinful practices, it will restrain him from praying.
The glory of God is the very thing for which man was made, and to which all other ends are subordinate.
No object can come at the heart but through the door of the understanding; and there can be no spiritual knowledge of that of which there is not first a rational knowledge.
Wherefore abandon all these ways of flattering yourselves; no longer follow the devil’s bait; and let nothing encourage you to go on in sin; but immediately and henceforth seek God with all your heart, and soul, and strength.
Knowledge is pleasant and delightful to intelligent creatures, and above all the knowledge of divine things.
God hath not made giving instructions to men in things of divinity a business by the by; but a business which he hath undertaken and prosecuted in a course of great and wonderful dispensations.
Reason’s work is to perceive truth and not excellency. It is not ratiocination that gives men the perception of the beauty and amiableness of a countenance.
The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked.
You hang by a slender thread, with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it, and ready every moment to singe it, and burn it asunder.
All the kings of the earth, before God, are as grasshoppers; they are nothing, and less than nothing.
It is the resolution of the mouth more than of the heart; their hearts are not strongly bent to fulfill what their mouth says.
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