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The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.
It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith and resolution to swim against a stream to heaven, and to appear for God when no one else appears for Him.Matthew Henry's Commentary
The service of sin is perfect slavery; the service of God is perfect liberty.
Human learning is both ornamental and serviceable to a gospel minister, especially for the convincing of those who are outside; for it enables him to beat them at their own weapons, and to cut off Goliath's head with his own sword.
The way of family worship is a good old way, no new thing, but the ancient usage of the saints.Commentary Gen 12:6
Behold, and wonder, that the great God should love such a worthless world! That the holy God should love such a wicked world with a love of good will, when he could not look upon it with any complacency.
No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has
become his interest that there should be none to call him to account.
It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.
A modest dress is a very good thing, if it be the genuine indication of a humble heart, and is to instruct; but it is a bad thing if it be the hypocritical disguise of a proud ambitious heart, and is to deceive. Let men be really as good as they seem to be, but not seem to be better than really they are.Matthew Henry's Commentary
Believers are made kings, though they are not to have the dominion till the morning of the resurrection.
Whatever stands against God, or thinks to stand without him, cannot stand long.
Parents cannot give grace to their children, but may by prayer bring them to the God of grace, and shall not seek him in vain, for their prayer shall either be answered or it shall return with comfort into their own bosom.
God's promises to us are more powerful and effectual for the killing of sin than our promises to God.Commentary, 6:326
The dominion that sin has over us is according to the delight we have in it.
If God does not give His people what they ask for, it is because He knows they do not need it, and that it is not for their good.
A man may go idle to Hell, but he who will go to Heaven, must be diligent.
Our temptations, if not yielded to, are not sins; they are afflictions only.
We cannot expect too little from man, nor too much from God!
Our times are in God's hand. Whether they be prosperous times or calamitous times, it is He who has determined them.
It is our wisdom and duty to begin every day with God.
The more cheerful we are in our duty the more constant we shall be to it.
When we begin to fret and be uneasy, we ought to consider that God hears all our murmurings, though silent, and only the murmurings of the heart.
The word of God directs us in our work and way, and a dark place indeed the world would be without it. The commandment is a lamp kept burning with the oil of the Spirit, as a light to direct us in the choice of our way, and the steps we take in that way.
Even when God is coming towards his people in ways of mercy, he sometimes takes such methods as that they may think themselves but ill treated.
When our heads are fullest of care, and our hands of business, yet we must not forget our religion, nor suffer ourselves to be indisposed for acts of devotion.
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