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 2. "A heathen philosopher once asked: "Where is God?" The Christian answered: "Let me first ask you, where is He not?".

 3. "A preacher is not devinely called and elevated to be a facile weathercock, turned by the wind; but like a tower of strength in scenes of danger, not less luminous then resolute, he is to turn the winds."

 4. "Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with."

 5. "Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting."

 6. "All fundamental errors and heresies in the Church may be traced to this source - 'Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures'. (Matthew 22:29) They are mostly based on partial or disjointed statements of truth. Truth separated from truth becomes error. Never has apostasy from the faith been connected with a prayerful and diligent study of the word of God."

 7. "As a man's god is, so is he".

 8. "Be not only attentive in hearing, but retentive after hearing."

 9. "Can Christ be in thy heart, and thou not know it? Can one king be dethroned and another crowned in thy soul, and thou hear no scuffle?"

10. "Doctrine must first fill up the lamp with oil and then exhortation added, put fire unto it."

11. "First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it."

12. "He that doth not believe that there is a God, is more vile then a devil. To deny there is a God, is a sort of atheism that is not to be found in hell."

13. "Hypocrites love a cheap religion. They like a gospel that will put them to no charges. They are content so they may have golden bags, to have wooden priests."

14. "I do not want to know anything of peace and concord when the Word of God is thereby lost. Before the Word everyone must give way, whether he be friend or an enemy- for the Word has not been given to us for the sake of external or wordly concord or peace, but for the sake of eternal life. Don't talk to me, therefore, of love and friendship if the Word and faith are to be compromised."

15. "I will give you this as a most certain observation, that there never was anything of false worship imposed upon the church, but either it was by neglecting the Scripture, or by introducing something above the Scripture."

16. "If conscience speaketh not, it writeth; for it is not only a witness, but a register, a book of record: 'The sin of Judah', is written with a pen of iron, and the point of a diamond."

17. "If ministers must take all opportunities to preach, the flock of God must take all opportunities to hear. When the Word of God is preached, the bread of life is distributed, which is more precious than thousands of gold and silver. In the Word preached, heaven and salvation is offered to you."

18. "If therefore, in doubtful cases, you would discover God's will, govern yourselves in your search after it by these rules: 1. Get the true fear of god upon your hearts; be really afraid of offending Him. 2. Study the Word more, and the concerns and interests of the world less. 3. Reduce what you know into practice, and you shall know what is your duty to practice. 4. Pray for illumination and direction in the way that you should go. 5. And this being done, follow Providence as far as it agrees with the Word, and no farther.

19. "If what you believe be not true, fling it away; but if it be true, let your faces be like flints and your natures like iron against all the temptations of this wicked, ever-changing age, which flies this way and that, but always away from its God. Oh, when shall it be that those who know the Lord shall stand fast, and having done all, shall still stand."

20. "Indifference in religion, is the first step to apostasy from religion."

21. "It is better to have divisions than evil uniformity."

22. "It were far easier to write a book of apostates in this age than a book of martyrs."

23. "Keep close to the word preached. The word preached is the rod of God's strength; (VIRGA VIRTUTIS) Faith cometh by hearing (Romans 10:17). Let us keep the word preached, because the power of God goes along with it."

24. "Let every one go whither he shall be called, even if he should not have a single follower. Even if the whole world should be blind and ungrateful, and that it should seem to you that all your pains had been laid out in vain, let it satisfy you that God and the angels approve of your conduct."

25. "Let them pretend what they please, the true reason why any despise the new birth is because they hate a new life."

26. "Little sins unrepented of will damn thee as well as great. Not only great rivers fall into the sea, but little brooks; not only greater sins carry men to hell, but lesser; therefore do not think pardon easy because sin is small."

27. "Man is a plague to his neighbor, because he is an enemy to his God. And because 'the fool despises wisdom' he falls victim to his own folly."

28. "Ministers must not only be 'pastors' but fighters and warriors. In one hand, they must hold the bread of life and feed the flock of God; in the other hand, they must hold the sword of the spirit and fight against those errors which carry damnation in their front."

29. "No flattery can heal a bad conscience, so no slander can hurt a good one."

30. "People who do not believe in anything, will come to believe anything."

31. "Q. How is the kingdom of heaven opened and shut by the preaching of the holy gospel? A. In this way: The kingdom of heaven is opened when it is proclaimed and openly testified to believers, one and all, according to the command of Christ, that as often as they accept the promise of the gospel with true faith all their sins are truly forgiven them by God for the sake of Christ's gracious work."-- The Heidelberg Catechism

32. "Reader, remember this: if thy knowledge do not now affect thy heart, it will at last, with a witness, afflict thy heart; if it do not now endear Christ to thee, it will at last provoke Christ the more against thee; if it do not make all the things of Christ to be very precious in thy eyes, it will at last make thee the more vile in Christ's eyes."

33. "Salvian observeth that the church, like a river, loseth in depth, what it gaineth in breadth."

34. "The differences among Christians are nothing in comparison of the differences among heathens.

35. "The eternal and inviolable truth of God, is not founded on the pleasure and judgement of men, and can easily be distinguished as light from darkness, and white from black."

36. "The gospel is not preached by Command of a new and temporary god, but of that God that was before all ages; though the manifestation of it be in time, yet the purpose and resolve of it was from eternity." -Charnock

37. "The Lord preserve me from the ruin of sleeping away the invaluable hours of 'the day of salvation'! Can I bear the thought of that desponding cry of eternal remorse -'The harvest is passed; the Summer is ended -and I am not saved?" (Jer 8:20)

38. "The man that understands the evil of his own heart, how vile it is, is the only useful, fruitful and solidly believing and obedient person...A man must abhor himself before he can serve God aright."

39. "The only way for worldly men to be comfortable with the God of the Bible is to bring Him down to us, to our level, to get Him off His throne, to remake Him to be like us. We must approach God through the merits of of Jesus Christ." (Psalm 50:21..."thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, ...")

40. "The outpouring of the Holy Spirit is the great and only remedy for a ruined country- the only effectual preventative of national calamities and desolation, and the only sure cause of a lasting and well established peace."

41. "The saints are to bear a threefold testimony to, and for Christ and His truths: Breath-testimony, Life-testimony, and Blood-testimony.

42. "The Scripture is both the breeder and feeder of grace. How is the convert born, but by "the Word of Truth"? (James 1:16). How doth he grow, but by "the sincere milk of the Word."? (I Peter 2:2)

43. "The Scripture is to be its own interpreter, or rather the Spirit speaking in it; nothing can cut diamond but diamond; nothing can interpret Scripture but Scripture."

44. "There are two things that are suited to humble the souls of men; a due consideration of God, and then of ourselves."

45. "Therefore, although the preaching of the cross does not agree with our human inclination, if we desire to return to God our Author and Maker, from whom we have been estranged, in order that he may again begin to be our Father, we ought nevertheless to embrace it humbly." - Calvin, Institutes, 2.6.1

46. "Truely for sinners to have fellowship with God, the infinitely HOLY GOD, is an astonishing dispensation."

47. "What must we contend for? For every truth of God, according to its moment and weight. The dust of gold is precious; and it is dangerous to be careless in the lesser truths: There is nothing superfluous in the cannon."

48. "Where God does not find a mouth to speak, you must not find an ear to hear, nor a heart to believe."

49. "Where union and friendship are not cemented by truth, I say it again, we must have unity, we must pray for unity, we must love one another, we must never divide over incidentals but it is far, far, far better to be divided by truth than united in error."

50. "Works before conversion cannot engage God, and works after conversion can not satisfy God -all the endeavour and labour of the creature will never procure it."

51. "You are to follow no man further than he follows Christ."

52. "Young man, if you ever would do good, you must preach the gospel of the free grace of God in Christ Jesus." -- Seventeenth-century Puritan divine Richard Sibbes to the young Puritan pastor and Oxford don Thomas Goodwin

53. (Man unhumbled before God believes that God has no right to give to any what he will not give equally to all. This is palatable to the self-righteous heart of man) "The enmity which men have discovered against the sovereignty of the grace of God, as revealed in the Holy Scriptures, hath now prevailed so far that every art is made use of to put other senses upon the words of revelation than God intended therein. He said to Moses: 'I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy.' (Romans 9:15-16)"

54. Isaiah 5:20-21, 24: "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!" (v24) "...because they have cast away the law of the Lord of Hosts, and despised the Word of the Holy One of Israel."

55. My mission is to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ, that He alone is God and to earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

56. We testify of one God existing in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, co-equal and eternal.

57. We testify of the eternal salvation of the believer and the eternal judgement of all who reject Jesus Christ.

58. We testify that man was created in innocence, but fell in Adam, and is now totally unable to remedy his lost condition.

59. We testify that salvation is the free gift of God brought to man by grace and received by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, whose redemptive blood was shed on Calvary for the forgiveness of our sins.

60. We testify that the Bible is the inspired Word of God, the infallible and only rule of faith and practice.

61. "I myself have often choked on our Lord's statement that the way is narrow and have often thought: We are such a tiny and poor little flock, despised and condemned by everything high and great on earth. Do we have a right to defy the whole world, to boast that only our cause is right...? But we must overcome this and conclude: I know that my cause is right, though the whole world may say otherwise...Do not think: I shall stay with the majority, for the fact that the greater part of mankind is in darkness is nothing new." "Man hides his own things, in order to conceal them; God hides his own things, in order to reveal them." -- Luther, Sermon, February 24, 1517