God’s decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saints’ perseverence depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so fast, that neither sin, death, nor hell, can break it asunder. Thomas Watson
Issue: Issue 7
When God calls a man, He does not repent of it. God does not, as many friends do, love one day, and hate another; or as princes, who make their subjects favourites, and afterwards throw them into prison. This is the blessedness of a saint; his condition admits of no alteration. God’s call is founded …
He (God) may for a time desert His children, but He will not disinherit them. Thomas Watson
As Adam had a world made for him, so shall Jesus Christ, the second Adam have a world made for Him. This world was not good enough for Him; He had a better appointed than that which Adam had, a new heaven and a new earth, according to the promise of Isaiah 66.22, where the …
ETERNITY J. C. Ryle “The things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.” 2 Corinthians 4.18. A subject stands out on the face of this text which is one of the most solemn and heart-searching in the Bible. That subject is eternity. The subject is one of which …