A Puritan at Heart

Daily quote from the puritans

The believer’s joy

It is a help to joy, it represents the excellency, truth and reality of spiritual things. That which we rejoice in, must be good, true, present. All joy ariseth from the presence of some good, either in actual posession, or in firm expectation. It is the nature of faith to make things absent present, it giveth being to hope, it sets up a stage in the heart of a believer, where God is represented acting whatever he hath promised. [Thomas Manton]

January 30, 2008 Posted by Deejay | Thomas Manton | | No Comments