That though there is no universal atonement, yet in the word there is a warrant given to offer Christ to all mankind, whether elect or reprobate, and a warrant to all freely to receive him, however great sinners they are, or have been. —Thomas Boston The […]
If all the light of the heavenly luminaries had been contracted into one, it would have been destructive, not useful, to our sight; but being by divine wisdom distributed into sun, moon, and stars, each giving out his own proportion, it is suited to declare the […]
When those that have been earnestly seeking Christ come to find him, [they] have reason to rejoice with exceeding great joy. Before Christ is found, there is nothing that is truly lovely that is ever found or seen. Those things that they had been conversant with […]
And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. Galatians 5:24 (KJV) By flesh we are here to understand carnal lust, the workings and motions of corrupt nature; and by the affections we are to understand, not the natural, but the […]
The life of Christianity consists very much in our love to Christ. Without love to Christ, we are as much without spiritual life—as a carcass when the soul is fled from it is without natural life. Faith without love to Christ is a dead faith, and […]