Quotes #19…Joseph Caryl 1602-1673

November 10, 2025

So you may look lightly upon a Scripture and see nothing; meditate often upon it and there you shall see a light, like the light of the Sun.

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Quotes #18…Timothy Cruso 1657-1697

November 6, 2025

“My flesh shall rest in hope.” (Psalm 16:9) That hope which is grounded on the word, gives rest to the soul; ’tis an anchor to keep it steady. Hebrews 6:13. Which shows the unmoveableness of that which our anchor is fastened to. The promise sustains our faith, and our faith is that which supports us. He that hopes in the Word as David did (Psalms 119:81), lays a mighty stress upon it; as Samson did when he leaned upon the pillars of the house, so as to pull it down upon the Philistines. A believer throws the whole weight of all of his affairs and concernments, temporal, spiritual, and eternal, upon the promises of God, like a man resolved to stand or fall with them. He ventures himself, and all that belongs to him, entirely upon this bottom, which is in effect to say, if they will not bear me up, I am content to sink: I know that there shall be a performance of those things which have been told me from the Lord, and therefore I will incessantly look for it.

Found in The Treasury of David, an original Exposition of the Psalms by C.H.S.

Cruso had as a fellow-student Daniel Defoe, who immortalized his name in Robinson Crusoe.

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Quotes #17…George Whitefield 1714-1770

November 3, 2025

The riches of His free grace cause me daily to triumph over all the temptations of the wicked one, who is very vigilant, and seeks all occasions to disturb me.

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Quotes #16…Jeff Allen (Born 1956)

October 30, 2025

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Quote #15… Richard Baxter (2) 1615-1691

October 27, 2025

Directions for profitable Reading the Holy Scriptures. Direct. 1

Bring not an evil heart of unbelief. Open the Bible with holy reverence as the book of God, indited by the Holy Ghost. Remember that the doctrine of the New Testament was revealed by the Son of God, who was purposely sent from heaven to be the light of the world, and to make known to men the will of God, and the matters of their salvation. Bethink you well, if God should but send a book or letter to you by an angel, how reverently you would receive it? How carefully you would peruse it; and regard it above all the books in the world? And how much rather should you do so, by that book which is indited by the Holy Ghost, and recordeth the doctrine of Christ himself, whose authority is greater than all the angels? Read it not therefore as a common book, with a common and unreverent heart; but in the dread and love of God the author.
(to be continued…)

From A Body of Practical Divinity, or A Christian Directory, Vol. 3.

Part One

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He has called us out of this world…

October 26, 2025
The true gospel is not pleasing to man

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Quotes #14…Timothy Rogers 1658-1728

October 23, 2025

Verse 9 (Psalm 16) – “My heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth…” His inward joy was not able to contain itself. We testify our pleasure on lower occasions, even at the gratification of our senses; when our ear is filled with harmonious melody, when out eye is fixed upon admirable and beauteous objects, when our smell is recreated with agreeable odours, and our taste also by the delicacy and rareness of provisions; and much more will our soul show its delight, when its faculties, that are of a more exquisite constitution, meet with things that are in all respects agreeable and pleasant to them; and in God they meet with all those: with his light our understanding is refreshed, and is our will with his goodness and his love.

From C.H.S.’s Exposition of the Psalms (The Treasury of David)

6 Lessons from a Depressed Puritan Pastor: Timothy Rogers
(A must read for anyone who has depression or knows of someone who has it.)

This is an example from “6 Lessons.” It is the Fourth lesson:

Lesson #4: Focus on Encouragement Over Exhortation

As a wise and caring soul physician, Rogers equips others to care like Christ. “Do not urge your melancholy friends to do what is out of their power. They are like persons whose bones are broken, and who are incapacitated for action.”

Astute enough to imagine the negative response his statement might receive, Rogers adds, “But you will ask, ought we not to urge them to hear the Word of God?”

Rogers responds to his own question by noting that the soul physician must know well the particular person they are counseling. He says to “kindly and gently” encourage them, if they are able, to “attend the preaching of the Word; but beware of using a peremptory and violent method.”

Rogers then illustrates his suggested approach using a situation well-known in his day.

“The method pursued by John Dod with Mrs. Drake should be imitated. ‘The burden which overloaded her soul was so great, that we never durst add any thereunto, but fed her with all encouragements, she being too apt to overcharge herself, and to despair upon any addition of fuel to that fire which was inwardly consuming her.’”

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My comment: I think that Timothy Rogers would have encouraged people with life changing depression to seek a doctor who would attempt to find the proper modern medications for this, as he called it, disease.

CR

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Christian Genocide in Nigeria

October 20, 2025

I’ve been watching Nigeria for years now and have posted about this problem more than once before. Recently, many small news sources complained that this horrific situation was receiving no mainstream news media coverage. It is now hitting the mainstream and many of you who are reading this may know about the persecution of Christians there. A few years ago, in one year, over 4,000 Christians were killed and, as far as we know, no other country came close to these numbers. This year is not over yet and I’m hearing that up to 7,500 Christians have been killed there this year. A Nigerian leader has said that 7,500 is way too high and that the number is more likely to be in the hundreds. With Nigeria’s past record, I think the number is much more likely to be in the thousands. People at the highest level of our government know of this situation and are concerned. It is good to see men in our government discussing this topic.
My goal here is to ask for prayers for our brothers and sisters in Nigeria. Please pray that God would give the Nigerian people strength through the persecution they are experiencing.

Chris Reimers

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Quotes #13…Jonathan Edwards 1703-1758

October 16, 2025

You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.

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Quotes #12…William Greenhill 1650

October 13, 2025

Verse 3. – David would direct his prayer to God and look up; not down to the world, down to corruption, but up to God what he would speak. Psalm 85:8 – “I will hear what God the Lord will speak.” Let the resolution of the prophet be thine: “I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.” – Micah 7:7.

Verse 3 refers to Psalm 5:3. The quote is found in C.H.S.’s Treasury of David.




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