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Ebenezer Erskine Quotes
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“You who, like the wise virgins, are not satisfied with the lamp of a profession, but are buying oil for your vessels, while the market of grace is standing.”
“O let heaven and earth stand amazed at the condescension of the Bridegroom, and the folly of sinners in refusing such a match!”
“His first coming in the flesh was to purchase a bride for himself by his obedience and death.”
“O match with Christ the Bridegroom, for he provides his bride in a large jointure.”
“It supposes, that it is the work and business of God's heralds to prepare the way for a meeting between Christ and sinners, to bring Christ near to sinners, and sinners near to Christ.”
“Go forth, and meet the Bridegroom in a way of believing; for sad, sad, will be the event, if you do not, after all that has been said.”
“How would my soul rejoice over you, as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, if you would but entertain and embrace me as your Bridegroom!”
“When God made our first parent Adam, he gave this whole earth to him, for his inheritance: he set him in a paradise of pleasure, and made him lord of all the works of his hand, so that he wanted for nothing to make him happy.”
“You prefer a soul-murdering lust to the glorious Bridegroom, like the Jews, who preferred Barabbas unto Jesus.”
“O "says the spouse, set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm." As the priest had the tribes of Israel upon his breast, so Christ has his people set as a seal upon his heart; she can never be out of his mind.”
“To win your hearts to the Bridegroom, consider how much it will turn out to your advantage, if you take on with him as your Husband.”
“O! this is my Beloved, this is my Friend: if I had ten thousand hearts and hands to give, he should have them all.”
“If this be the case with you, you never yet went out to meet the Bridegroom, you were never married to the better Husband, but continue married to the law.”
“Your meat will then be turned into your bowels, and will be as the gall of asps within you.”
“There is such a divine glory in his person, that the lustre of it darkens the sun in the firmament, that it appears to be as sackcloth and darkness.”
“He rejoiced in the habitable parts of the earth, and his delights were with the sons of men." 2.”