Occupation: Writer Birth: November 4, 1740 Death: August 11, 1778
I enjoy heaven already in my soul. My prayers are all converted into praises..
Not the labors of my hands Can fulfill thy Law's demands: Could my zeal no respite know, Could my tears forever flow, All for Sin could not a….
Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to Thy cross I cling.
When Christ entered into Jerusalem the people spread garments in the way: when He enters into our hearts, we pull off our own righteousness, and not ….
Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors..
Since much wealth too often proves a snare and an incumbrance in the Christian's race, let him lighten the weight by 'dispersing abroad and giving to….
Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in Thee..
The church of the elect, which is partly militant on earth, and partly triumphant in heaven, resembles a city built on both sides of a river. There i….
Whom should we love, if not Him who loved us, and gave himself for us?.
That opinion, which supposes personal sanctification to be unnecessary to final glorification, stands in direct opposition to every dictate of reason….
The greatest judgment which God himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man is to leave him in the hand of his own boasted 'free'-will..
Grace alone makes the elect gracious; grace alone keeps them gracious; and the same grace alone will render them everlastingly glorious in the heaven….
Faith, repentance, and holiness are no less the free gifts of God than eternal life..
How vast the benefits divine which we in Christ possess! We are redeemed from guilt and shame and called to holiness. But not for works which we have….
To a true believer, death is but going to church: from the church below to the church above..
I infer that God's decrees, and the necessity of event flowing thence, neither destroy the true free-agency of men, nor render the commission of sin ….
A man's free will cannot cure him even of the toothache, or a sore finger; and yet he madly thinks it is in its power to cure his soul..