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All this and heaven too. - [Heaven] An active faith can give thanks for a promise even though it be not yet performed, knowing that God's bonds are as good as ready money. - [Faith in God] Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. - [Affliction] He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave. - [Death] Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery. - [Hypocrisy] In all God's providences, it is good to compare His word and His works together; for we shall find a beautiful harmony between them, and that they mutually illustrate each other. - [God] It is more to the honor of a Christian soldier, by faith to overcome the world, than by a monastical vow to retreat from it; and more for the honor of Christ, to serve Him in a city than to serve Him in a cell. - [Christian] Nature is content with little; grace with less; but lust with nothing. - [Lust] None live so easily, so pleasantly, as those that live by faith. - [Faith] Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good and partaking of God's holiness. - [Greatness] Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions. - [Affliction] That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it, which will waste it; and the same corrupt dispositions which incline men to the sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending. - [Dishonesty] The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints. - [Bible] The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve the purity of it. - [Churches] There is a burden of care in getting riches, fear in keeping them, temptation in using them, guilt in abusing them, sorrow in losing them, and a burden of account at last to be given up concerning them. - [Wealth] Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse. - [Affliction] Those who complain most are most to be complained of. - [Grumbling] It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with. - Commentaries [Public Trust] It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare." - Commentaries [Scripture] Not lost, but gone before. - Commentaries, title of a song published in "Smith's Edinburgh Harmony", Matthew II [Death] Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep. - Commentaries (Genesis, III) [Temptation] Many a temptation comes to us in find, gay colours that are but skin deep. - Commentaries (Genesis, III) [Beauty] The better day, the worse deed. - Commentaries (Genesis, III) [Day] It is good news, worthy of all acceptation, and yet not too good to be true. - Commentaries (I Timothy, I, 15) [News] Blushing is the colour of virtue. - Commentaries (Jeremiah, III) [Blushes] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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