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Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.

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That which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort.

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The soul of the poorest child is of equal dignity with the soul of Adam.

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Observed duties maintain our credit; but secret duties maintain our life.

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Scripture knows no other way to glory, but Christ put on and applied by faith.

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It is better to be as low as hell with a promise, than in Paradise without one.

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What, at Peace with the Father, and at War with the (His) Children! It cannot be.

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To see a man humble under prosperity is one of the greatest rarities in the world.

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When God gives you comforts, it is your great evil not to observe His hand in them.

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One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.

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Christ is so in love with holiness, that at the price of His blood He will buy it for us.

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The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated.

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Jesus, our head, is already in heaven; and if the head be above water, the body cannot drown.

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Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul.

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Christ comes with kingly power, to rescue sinners, as a prey from the mouth of the terrible one.

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If time be a ring of gold, opportunity is the rich diamond that gives it both its value and glory.

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The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness.

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Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us.

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The greatest difficulty in conversion is to win the heart to God and after conversion to keep it with Him.

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As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low.

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No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

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For the infinite glorious Creator of all things, to become a creature, is a mystery exceeding all human understanding.

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Christ's resurrection is the ground-work of our hope. And the new birth is our title or evidence of our interest in it.

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That soul is dead to which the Spirit of Christ is not given in the work of regeneration; and all its works are dead works.

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Let all Arminians know: we have as high an esteem for faith as any men in the world, but yet we will not rob Christ to clothe faith.

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Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him.

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The heart of a Christian, like the moon, commonly suffers an eclipse when it is at the full, and that by the interposition of the earth.

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The carnal person fears man, not God. The strong Christian fears God, not man. The weak Christian fears man too much, and God too little.

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What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves!

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He is bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, a garment to the naked, healing to the wounded; and whatever a soul can desire is found in Him.

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