Extracted from A Lifting Up For the Downcast by William Bridge (1600-1670)
Issue: Issue 2
WHY CAST DOWN AND DISQUIETED? A Sermon by George Whitefield (1714-1770) “Why art thou cast down, 0 my soul, and why art thou disquieted within me! Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him, for the help of his countenance.” Psalm 42.5. I have often told you, in my plain way of speaking, …
A soul under assurance is unwilling to go to heaven without company. Thomas Brooks
SPIRITUAL CONSOLATION Notes of a sermon by Charles Hodge Man is a child of sorrow. Though possessed of numerous sources of enjoyment and much happiness, there is no man who has not to drink of the cup of sorrow. The sources of sorrow are numerous. 1. Bodily pain and infirmity. 2. Pressure of external circumstances, …
SOME OF SATAN’S DEVICES Extracted from Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices by Thomas Brooks (1608-1680). The several devices that Satan hath to keep souls in a sad, doubting, questioning, and uncomfortable condition. Though he can never rob a believer of his crown, yet such is his malice and envy, that he will leave no stone …
The assured Christian is more motion than notion, more work than word, more life than lip, more hand than tongue. Thomas Brooks
Assurance and comforts are desirable, but fruitfulness is absolutely necessary … The end why the Lord offers us comfort and assurance of His love, is to make us cheerful in His service, and to encourage us in His work, and engage our hearts in it thoroughly. David Clarkson
THE ASSURANCE OF FAITH. A. M. Toplady (1740-1778) The deep things which relate to personal experience of the Holy Spirit’s dealing with the soul ought to be matters of prayer, not of disputation. It has long been a settled point with me that the Scriptures make a wide distinction between faith, the assurance of faith, …
We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince’s hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner’s hand. William Gurnall