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Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.

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If we believe not with faith divine and supernatural, we believe not at all.

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That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.

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Fill your affections with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin.

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Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures...

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The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.

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Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.

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The root of an unmortified course is the digestion of sin without bitterness in the heart.

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Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.

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All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain.

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Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.

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We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

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There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty.

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The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word

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The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever.

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We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.

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A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.

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We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.

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I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.

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It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.

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A true saving knowledge of sin is to be had only in the Lord Christ: in him may we see the desert of our iniquities.

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No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by faith.

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He that is more frequent in his pulpit to his people than he is in his closet for his people, is but a sorry watchman.

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Your state is not at all to be measured by the opposition that sin makes to you, but by the opposition you make to it.

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Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but He died for all God's elect, that they should believe.

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There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed on; and it will be so whilst we live in this world.

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Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us.

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If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine.

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He that stands still and suffers his enemies to double blows upon him without resistance, will undoubtedly be conquered in the issue.

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Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your ruin.

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