Tidbits from today's reading
"As for the satisfaction and the quiet of a troubled soul, all men are vanity; and it is an incommunicable prerogative of the divine nature, certainly and infallibly, to relieve the miserable (Isaiah 57:19). Other friends either do not know your wants or, by their own poverty or distance, are not in a capacity to supply them. But God is always near, always full of goodness, and is acquainted with whatsoever we need or expect."
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"Faith, I may well say, is the mother of all the graces; it conceives and brings them forth, and takes care to promote their growth; it contributes life to them at first, and causes them to thrive and flourish afterwards. With faith our meaner services meet with a cheerful and favorable acceptance; and without it, all the most pompous devotions and all the most tedious and paintful mortifcations that we could ever practice would be of no value in the sight of God."
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"If we pore upon our own qualifications, duties, evidences, and the like, we shall, by a continued circulation of easy thoughts, merely increase our own trouble; the imperfection and faultiness of all that we have done, or are able to do, will fill our minds with perplexity and distress; the holiness and the spirituality of the law of God will kill our most forward hopes.
"Our best way, therefore, is not to sit still, bewailing our miseries and the sadness of our case, but to arise and to run to the city of refuge that is before us. When we are wounded with the sense of sin, with weeping eyes and grieved hearts, we must look up to Christ, of whom the brazen serpent was a type; when the burden of our iniquities sinks us down and makes us groan, we must go to Him in whom the weary and the heavy-laden find rest. We must go to that gospel, which, as it reveals and manifests the abundance of sin in us, at the same time manifests the righteousness that is in Christ; while the one terrifies us with the fear of hell, the other will refresh us with the hope of heaven."
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"Our unbelieving hearts, while they are such, will be full of darkness and full of trouble; but upon our faith, the storm will cease, and the morning will begin to dawn upon us. And then, instead of that wrath which we feared, and had deserved, we shall find there is mercy with the Lord, and plenteous redemption (Psalm 130:7)"
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"Faith will wipe away our tears and cause us to take a further prospect, and to see where they now are who were mourners as well as we. Job is no longer wondered at upon a dunghill by his friends, but shines wiht glory in the highest heaven. Heman is no more distracted with terrors, but is infinitely pleased with the sight and enjoyment of His God. Asaph is also singing praises to God, though He thought and was afraid that His mercies were clean gone, and that He would be favorable no more."
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"The dangers and distresses on our way will make us like our home better. All the years of our life, though spent in sore afflictions and anxieties, will appear to have been very short when we land at our haven of joy and immortality."
Timothy Rogers Trouble of Mind and the Disease of Melancholy
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"Faith, I may well say, is the mother of all the graces; it conceives and brings them forth, and takes care to promote their growth; it contributes life to them at first, and causes them to thrive and flourish afterwards. With faith our meaner services meet with a cheerful and favorable acceptance; and without it, all the most pompous devotions and all the most tedious and paintful mortifcations that we could ever practice would be of no value in the sight of God."
* * * *
"If we pore upon our own qualifications, duties, evidences, and the like, we shall, by a continued circulation of easy thoughts, merely increase our own trouble; the imperfection and faultiness of all that we have done, or are able to do, will fill our minds with perplexity and distress; the holiness and the spirituality of the law of God will kill our most forward hopes.
"Our best way, therefore, is not to sit still, bewailing our miseries and the sadness of our case, but to arise and to run to the city of refuge that is before us. When we are wounded with the sense of sin, with weeping eyes and grieved hearts, we must look up to Christ, of whom the brazen serpent was a type; when the burden of our iniquities sinks us down and makes us groan, we must go to Him in whom the weary and the heavy-laden find rest. We must go to that gospel, which, as it reveals and manifests the abundance of sin in us, at the same time manifests the righteousness that is in Christ; while the one terrifies us with the fear of hell, the other will refresh us with the hope of heaven."
* * * *
"Our unbelieving hearts, while they are such, will be full of darkness and full of trouble; but upon our faith, the storm will cease, and the morning will begin to dawn upon us. And then, instead of that wrath which we feared, and had deserved, we shall find there is mercy with the Lord, and plenteous redemption (Psalm 130:7)"
* * * *
"Faith will wipe away our tears and cause us to take a further prospect, and to see where they now are who were mourners as well as we. Job is no longer wondered at upon a dunghill by his friends, but shines wiht glory in the highest heaven. Heman is no more distracted with terrors, but is infinitely pleased with the sight and enjoyment of His God. Asaph is also singing praises to God, though He thought and was afraid that His mercies were clean gone, and that He would be favorable no more."
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"The dangers and distresses on our way will make us like our home better. All the years of our life, though spent in sore afflictions and anxieties, will appear to have been very short when we land at our haven of joy and immortality."
Timothy Rogers Trouble of Mind and the Disease of Melancholy
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