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To depend partly upon Christ's righteousness and partly upon our own, is to set one foot upon a. rock and another in the quicksands. Christ will either be to us all in all in point of righteousness, or else nothing at all.

Thomas Erskine

The movement of the soul along the path of duty, under the influence of holy love to God, constitutes what we call good works.

Thomas Erskine

It is impossible to look into the Bible with the most ordinary attention without feeling that we have got into a moral atmosphere quite different from that which we breathe in the world, and in the world's literature.

Thomas Erskine

Faith is the nail which fastens the soul to Christ; and love is that grace that drives the nail to the head. Faith takes hold of Him, and love helps to keep the grip. Christ dwells in the heart by faith, and He burns in the heart by love, like a fire melting the breast. Faith casts the knot, and love draws it fast.

Thomas Erskine

Dedicated to Dr John Lettsom, who was known to sign his prescriptions, 'I. Lettsom':

Whenever patients come to I,
I physics, bleeds, and sweats 'em;
If after that they choose to die,
What's that to me! — I letts 'em.

Thomas Erskine

Thomas Erskine

Thomas Erskine

Born: October 13, 1788

Died: March 20, 1870 (aged 81)

Bio: Thomas Erskine of Linlathen was a Scottish advocate and lay theologian in the early part of the 19th century. With his friend the Reverend John McLeod Campbell he attempted a revision of Calvinism.

Known for:

Armata (1817)
Speeches of Lord Erskine, While at the Bar
Encyclopedia of Sports Films

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