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And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.
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Say not that thou hast royal blood in thy veins; say not that thou art born of God if thou canst not prove thy pedigree by daring to be holy!
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The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.
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The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.
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God loves the saints as the purchase of his Son's blood. They cost him dear, and that which is so hardly got shall not be easily lost. He that was willing to expend his Son's blood to gain them, will not deny his power to keep them.
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Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.
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Truly, hope is the saint's covering, wherein he wraps himself, when he lays his body down to sleep in the grave: "My flesh," saith David, "shall rest in hope."
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God is almighty to pardon, but He will not use His power for a shameless sinner. He is able to save and help in time of need, but if you have not repented, how can you expect His aid? The same power God expends on the believer's salvation will be spent on your damnation, for He has bound Himself under oath to destroy every impenitent soul.
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Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
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Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.
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When people do not mind what God speaks to them in His word, God doth as little mind what they say to Him in prayer.
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God is very precise in this point; he will say to such as invent ways to worship him of their own, coin means to mortify corruption, obtain comfort in their own mint: 'Who hath required this at your hands?' This is truly to be 'righteous over-much,' as Solomon speaks, when we will pretend to correct God's law, and add supplements of our own to his rule.
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We must come to good works by faith, and not to faith by good works.
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Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or example to cry, but instructed by nature; it comes into the world crying. Praying is not a lesson got by forms and rules of art, but flowing from principles of new life itself.
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God Himself underwrites your battle and has appointed His own Son 'the captain of your salvation'.
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Christ will bear no equal, and Satan no superior; and therefore, hold in with both thou canst not.
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Whoever hath a seed time of grace pass over his soul, shall have his harvest time also of joy.
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The Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his holy constancy in the truth.
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As you love your peace, Christian, be plain-hearted with God and man, and keep the king's highway.
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The Christian, like a chalice without a base, cannot stand on his own nor hold what he has received any longer that God holds him in His strong hands.
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In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.
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Pride of gifts robs us of God's blessing in the use of them.
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Weak faith will as surely land the Christian in heaven as strong faith, for it is impossible the least dram of true grace should perish
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