Sinners should be afraid. They have an angry God above them, a guilty conscience in them, and a yawning hell below them.
By the light of nature we see God as a God above us, by the light of the law we see Him as a God against us, but by the light of the gospel we see Him as Emmanuel, God with us.
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.
No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.
Spiritual growth consists most in the growth of the root, which is out of sight.
None can know their election but by their conformity to Christ; for all who are chosen are chosen to sanctification.
Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ.
Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.
Those that go bold into the furnace will come out no worse.
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