"To know that nothing hurts the godly, is a matter of comfort; but to be assured that all things which fall out shall co-operate for their good, that their crosses shall be turned into blessings, that showers of affliction water the withering root of their grace and make it flourish more; this may fill their hearts with joy till they run over."
- Thomas Watson (on the Puritan Hard Drive at http://bit.ly/ci3g2z)
"Christ is the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are gathered into the ocean, which is the meeting-place of all the waters in the world, so Christ is that ocean in which all true delights and pleasures meet."
- John Flavel (on the Puritan Hard Drive)
"We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love."
- John Owen (on the Puritan Hard Drive)
"So in love is Christ with holiness that he will buy it with his blood for us."
- John Flavel (on the Puritan Hard Drive)
"We trust as we love, and where we love. If we love Christ much, surely we shall trust him much."
- Thomas Brooks (on the Puritan Hard Drive)
"Unfathomable oceans of grace are in Christ for you. Dive and dive again -- you will never come to the bottom of these depths!"
- Robert Murray McCheyne (on the Puritan Hard Drive)
"They who love any thing better than Christ are not worthy of him."
- Covenanter field Minister James Renwick, on the day of his martyrdom (on the Puritan Hard Drive)
Prayer keeps the heart open to God -- but shut to sin.
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“ Love Charnock ” Charnock says here, "The removal of the gospel and unchurching a nation is the greatest judgment. Can there be a greater judgment than to have the word of God removed, to want a prophet to instruct and warn, when the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancient? This God threatens as the greatest, Ezek. 7. 26. And the church complains of it as the sorest: We see not our signs, and there is no more any prophet among us, Psal. 74 It was the greatest token of God's anger, when his glory went up from the cherubims, Ezek. 9- 2. A loco placationis. How much more terrible is the shaking off the dust of the feet of God against a people, than the shaking off the dust of the feet of an apostle? What greater evidence can there be of a father's indignation against a disobedient son, than not only to disinherit him but disdain to speak to him, or send to him any notice of his mind and will? The misery of the old world was summed up in this, My Spirit shall not always strive with man, Gen. 6:3, and then are the flood-gates of heaven opened. The shutting up the book of mercy, is the opening the book of justice, the unstopping the vials of wrath; this, this is the very dregs of vengeance."
