Richard Sibbes (5)



God is forced to mortify sins by afflictions, because we mortify them not by the Spirit.


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usually he empties such of themselves, and makes them nothing, before he will use them in any great services.The Bruised Reed (3)


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Men must not be too curious in prying into the weakness of others. We should labour rather to see what they have that is for eternity, to incline our heart to love them, than into that weakness which the Spirit of God will in time consume...The Holy Spirit is content to dwell in smoky, offensive souls.


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I say there are two courts: one of justification, another of sanctification. In the court of justification merits are nothing worth, insufficient; but in the court of sanctification, as they are ensigns of a sanctified course, so they are jewels and ornaments.Complete Works (Edinburgh: James Nichol, 5:85)


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