A Puritan at Heart

Daily quote from the puritans

All glory unto GOD

Let us be exhorted to exalt God Alone, and to ascribe to him all the glory of redemption. Let us endeavor to obtain and increase in, a sensibleness of our great dependence on God… to mortify a self-dependant and self-righteous disposition. Man is naturally exceeding, prone to exalt himself, and depend on his own power or goodness… But this doctrine should teach us to exalt God alone; as by trust and reliance, so by praise. Let him that glorieth, glory in the Lord. Hath any man hope that he is converted and sanctified.. that his sins are forgiven, and he received into God’s favour, and exalted to the honour and blessedness of being his child, and an heir to eternal life? Let him give God all the glory; who alone makes him to differ from the worst of men in this world, or the most miserable of the damned in hell ...Is any man eminent in holiness, and abundant in good works, let him take nothing of the glory of it to himself, but ascribe it unto him whose “ workmanship we are, created in Christ Jesus unto good works .“  [Jonathan Edwards]

March 2, 2008 Posted by Deejay | Johnathan Edwards | | No Comments

On Reproof

Oh, that I might never be so void of love to my fallen brother as not to give him a serious reproof, nor so void of love to myself as not to receive a serious reproof. [George Swinnock]

March 2, 2008 Posted by Deejay | Misc Puritans, Puritanism | | No Comments