God is on high, and yet the higher you lift up yourself, the farther you are from Him; the lower you humble yourself, the nearer He draws to you. Low things He looks close upon, that He may raise them: proud things He knows afar off, […]
Christ, though guiltless, took our punishment, that He might cancel our guilt, and do away with our punishment.
So if you ask me concerning the most important precepts of the Christian religion, first, second, third, and always I would answer “Humility.” … Let no man flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. His blessing comes from God alone. For what do you have of […]
He took to himself what He was not,while remaining what He was; He came to us in a manwithout ever departing from the Father (in heaven); He continued to be what He iswhile appearing to us as what we are; His divine power was confined in the […]
Christ is come, but first to save, then to judge: to adjudge to punishment those who would not be saved; to bring them to life who, by believing, did not reject salvation. Accordingly, the first dispensation of our Lord Jesus Christ is medicinal, not judicial; for […]