Fire is quenched by pouring on water or withdrawing fuel; so the Spirit is quenched by living in sin, which is like pouring on water; or not improving our gifts and grace, which is like withdrawing the fuel. —Thomas Manton Works, 9:491.
Who of created intelligences would have thought of any such thing as the eternal and infinitely beloved Son of God being substituted in the room of sinners?
It is but a false pretence of love to God that any man hath who liveth in any known sin. Where God is not loved above all, he is not loved at all; and he is not so where men will not part with one cursed […]
I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins. Isaiah 43:25 That it is God only who can pardon sin. How vain, then, is it for man to attempt it! How wicked for man to […]