28. SOME MUSINGS OF AN OLD CHRISTIAN
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Long-continued and sore trials would drown the people of God in sorrow, but that the Lord gives them blessed cordials and puts underneath them the everlasting arms. Sad indeed is the case of a man when Divine mercy cannot effect its object without his overthrow. God never withdrew His tender mercies from any, until sin had made its dreadful mark.
As God is the Father of the fatherless, so is He also the Helper of the helpless.
He who so fears as not to love, and he who so loves as not to fear his Maker—are alike destitute of true piety.
He who trusts in great men is as foolish as he who trusts in base men.
God's condescension is equal to His majesty.
Man's knowledge is soon exhausted.
Inanimate creation and brutes glorify God. Why should man expect to be left to do as he pleased, and honor or dishonor God, as he might choose?
Our circumstances are never so depressed that the Almighty cannot give us effectual aid.
The worst maladies are sinful passions.
Neither men nor angels are ever better employed than in obeying God's commandments.
It is sad that so many boast of justification or cry for pardon—who never speak of sanctification nor pray for purity.
Having learned to sing God's praises here—we shall not lose the heavenly art by passing over Jordan.
"Every creature is to us what God makes it to be—a friend or an enemy."
Let all who have unusual prosperity remember that their condition has temptations not a whit less severe, than those of abject wretchedness.
The early Christians, who had been converted from heathenism, often write almost as if they had just escaped from the precincts of perdition.
Those who have honestly and heartily received the righteousness of Christ—will be sure to mark His footsteps and walk as He walked.
All the sufferings and perplexities of man can be fairly traced to his apostasy from his Maker.
Through the wonders of Divine grace, the natural evils which befall godly men are the means not only of checking, but also of eradicating, the evils of their hearts and preparing them for glory.
The heart of Christ and the heart of His people, agree on all vital matters.
If the Lord sufficiently helps His people along under trials, He shows Himself as kind as in granting deliverance.
As the whole scheme of salvation had its origin in Jehovah's mercy, goodness, and loving-kindness; and as He changes not, so we may rest assured He will perfect all the work He has begun.
The most glorious thing in salvation, is the perfect consistency of its rich grace with inflexible justice.
There are wonders enough in the constitution of the person of the Mediator, and in His amazing history while on earth, to fill the wisest and best of men with adoring admiration until they are admitted within the veil to behold the King in His glory.
God is so determined on having our warm affections enlisted in all our approaches to Him, that if this point be not gained, nothing will please Him.
Nothing is more necessary than the help of God's Spirit. Without wind, sails will not carry a vessel onward. Without fire from heaven, Elijah's sacrifice would have been no better than that offered to Baal. Without the spirit the body is dead.
It would be a mystery amounting to a contradiction, if the salvation of God produced no controlling, delightful emotions in the souls of His true children.
The nine lepers who returned not to give glory to God, were as well pleased with their cure as their companion, the tenth; but they cared nothing for the author of so great a mercy.
It is sad to see teachers flattering their pupils, and pastors their people; but all that would be harmless if men did not flatter themselves and refuse to receive evidence against themselves.
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