He is not drowning His sheep when He washeth them, nor killing them when He is shearing them. But by this He showeth that they are His own; and the newborn sheep do most visibly bear His name or mark, when it is almost worn out and scarce discernible on them that have the longest fleece.
All Christians are Disciples or Scholars of Christ, the church is his School; we are his Ushers, the Bible is his Grammar.
I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.
The differences among Christians are nothing in comparison of the differences among heathens.
And the longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?
Rebirth brings us into the Kingdom of grace, and death into the Kingdom of glory.
Serve God with gladness and cheerfulness of heart, as one that hath found the way of life, and never had cause of gladness until now. If you see your servant do all his work with groans, and tears, and lamentations, you will not think that he is well pleased with his master and his work.
You may know God, but not comprehend Him.
O spend your time as you would hear of it in the Judgement!
What fitter day to ascend to heaven, than that on which He arose from earth, and fully triumphed over death and hell. Use your Sabbaths as steps to glory, till you have passed them all, and are there arrived.
This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it."
Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
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