Quotes #23…John Trapp 1601-1669 (2)

December 1, 2025

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

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

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

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 #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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Quote #10…Richard Baxter 1615-1691 (1)

October 6, 2025

Directions for profitable Reading the Holy Scriptures.

SEEING the diversity of men’s tempers and understandings is so exceedingly great, that it is impossible that any thing should be pleasing and suitable to some, which shall not be disliked and quarrelled with by others; and seeing in the Scriptures there are many things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest to their own destruction (a). And the word is to some the savour of death unto death (b). You have therefore need to be careful in reading it. And as Christ saith, “Take heed how you hear;(c)” so I say, Take heed how you read.
(…to be continued)

(a) Pet. 3:16. (b) Mark 4:24. 2 Cor. 2:16. (c) Luke 8:18.

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

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