Occupation: Author Birth: April 8, 1634 Death: November 17, 1668
Christ does not control his subjects by force, but is King of a willing people. They are, through His grace, freely devoted to His service..
Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down and erects a new structure. It is not the sewing on a patch of holiness; but….
It is one thing to have sin alarmed only by convictions, and another to have it crucified by converting grace. Many, because they have been troubled ….
The unsound convert takes Christ by halves. He is all for the salvation of Christ, but is not for sanctification. He is for the privileges, but does ….
In every sound convert the judgment is brought to approve of the laws and ways of Christ, and subscribe to them as most righteous and reasonable; the….
A man may as certainly miscarry by his seeming righteousness and supposed graces, as by gross sins; and that is, when a man doth trust in these as hi….
O miserable man, what a deformed monster has sin made you! God made you "little lower than the angels"; sin has made you little better than the devils.
Two sorts of peace are more to be dreaded than all the troubles in the world — peace with sin, and peace in sin..
Converting grace puts God on the throne, and the world at His footstool; Christ in the heart, and the world under Hisfeet..
Do not stand still disputing about your election - but set to repenting and believing. Cry to God for converting grace. Revealed things belong to you….
Whatever... you pretend... if any of you be a prayerless person, or a scoffer, or a lover of evil company, in a word, if you are not a holy, strict, ….
None are drawn to Christ by their calling, nor come to him by believing, but only his sheep, those whom the Father has given him,. Effectual calling ….
Come from your knees to the sermon, and come from the sermon to your knees.
Woe unto thee if after all thy profession thou shouldst be found under the power of ignorance, lost in formality, drowned in earthly-mindedness, enve….
I will watch over My flock by night (Isaiah 27:3). Behold, I have appointed My ministers as your watchmen, as overseers who watch for your souls (Heb….
For a soul to come to Jesus, is the grandest event in its history..
Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down, and erects a new structure... The sincere Christian is quite a new fabric, ….
The right procedure: You begin at the wrong end if you first dispute about your election. Prove your conversion, and then never doubt your election. ….
There is no surer evidence of an unconverted state than to have the things of the world uppermost in our aim, love, and estimation..
Satan turned Eve's eye to the apple, Achan's eye to the wedge of gold, Ahab's eye to Naboth's vineyard, and then what work did he make with them!.
A man may as well hew marble without tools, or paint without colors or instruments, or build without materials, as perform any acceptable service wit….