Quote #26…Jeremiah Burroughs 1599-1646

December 16, 2025

“Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God’s wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.”

Jeremiah Burroughs (Click on Jeremiah’s name at left to learn a bit about him.)

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Quote #25…Richard Baxter (4) 1615-1691

December 11, 2025

Directions for profitable Reading the Holy Scriptures. Direct. 3

Remember that it is the will and testament of your Lord, and the covenant of most full and gracious promises; which all your comforts, and all your hopes of pardon and everlasting life are built upon. Read it therefore with love and great delight. Value it a thousand fold more than you would do the letters of your dearest friend, or the deeds by which you hold your lands; or any thing else of low concernment. If the law was sweeter to David than honey, and better than thousands of gold and silver, and was his delight and meditation all the day, O what should the sweet and precious Gospel be to us!

From A Body of Practical Divinity, or A Christian Directory, Vol. 3.
(…to be continued)

Richard Baxter

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Quotes #24…Thomas Brooks 1608-1680

December 8, 2025

“Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins.”

A quote by Charles Spurgeon about Thomas Brooks’ writing:

“Brooks scatters stars with both hands, with an eagle eye of faith as well as the eagle eye of imagination”.

Thomas Brooks

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The Person of Jesus Christ

December 4, 2025

Recently, Bruce Cooper posted the following article. I found it provided clarity in a world that speaks so much of Jesus but seems to hardly know the Jesus described in the Bible. To know who Jesus is, one must turn to the Bible. It is where we get our knowledge. Here Bruce takes the words of scripture and provides a good glimpse into who our Savior is. The best way to build on this knowledge is to read and study the Bible for yourself.

The Person of Jesus Christ

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Quotes #23…John Trapp 1601-1669 (2)

December 1, 2025

Conscience is God’s spy and man’s overseer.

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Quote #20…Richard Baxter (3) 1615-1691

November 14, 2025

Directions for profitable Reading the Holy Scriptures. Direct. 2

Remember that it is the very law of God which you must live by, and be judged by at last. And therefore read with a full resolution to obey whatever it commandeth, though flesh, and men, and devils contradict it. Let there be no secret exceptions in your heart, to baulk any of its precepts, and shift off that part of obedience, which the flesh accounteth difficult or dear.
(…to be continued…Direct 1 and 3 give balance to this seemingly legalistic Direct)

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

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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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