Wilhelmus a Brakel Quotes

“Does sin rob you of all your liberty before God, and of all your desire and spiritual life?”

“The consciousness of God is as natural to man as his ability to reason.”

“You are not worthy of having a piece of bread to put in your mouth, nor a thread to cover your skin.”

“That which is of the world is glorious and delightful in their eyes, and is worthy of being sought and pursued.”

“There is nothing lacking in the Word—neither small nor great, low nor high.”

“We do maintain that believers, according to their means, must support believers who are subject to poverty.”

“The more mature a Christian becomes, however, the more he will engage himself from the superior to the inferior; that is, love for the glory of God motivates him to do everything which serves to that end.”

“Subsequent thereto, however, the godly will be ushered into the third heaven—the paradise of God—by the King, in order to have the eternal satisfaction of joy in immediate fellowship with God.”

“Are you willing to sacrifice honor, possessions, life, soul and body for the Lord‘s sake and do you yearn for felicity?”

“How zealously did I seek the Lord at that time and how abundantly was the Spirit of prayer poured out upon me!”

“Therefore they keep the lid on the pot and peacefully live on in their sins, aggravating all this by eating and drinking unworthily.”

“Let the love of Jesus compel you to live a life pleasing to Him, in order to glorify Him here, and patiently wait until He takes you to be eternally with Himself.”

“The entire period from Adam to Christ is the time of promise.”

“Therefore, as often as he sins, he breaks the covenant by renewal, remains subject to its curse, and increases it time and again.”

“Your feigned conversion and godliness is but a work of nature, consisting in abstinence from blatant evil and the performance of civil good; however, this is not conversion and godliness.”

“Ought not our walk then be distinct from the walk of natural men?”

“Both preaching and reading instruct, motivate, lead to repentance, and comfort every believer; hence, reading and hearing have identical results.”

“There are others beside you who will observe how God deals with you. (1) It is to you and them that God wants to show His sovereignty and freeness in manifesting His mercy to whomever and whenever He wills.”

“When we define God to be infinite, however, we do so in the literal sense of the word, thereby conveying that His Being is truly without any parameters or limitations.”

“He not only forbids the addition of what one would deem to be the laws of God, but he forbids all additions by whatever name they may be called, the reason for this prohibition being that the law of God is perfect.”

“The moon and the stars are seen best when the sun is absent.”

“The Son is of the same divinity as the Father, and the Holy Spirit is of the same divinity as the Father and the Son.”

“Man is but an empty vessel who must obtain his fulfillment from elsewhere—from a source external to himself.”

“A believing and converted person is and also always remains in a reconciled state; sins committed in the meantime can never undo this reconciliation.”

“Hereby we thus discover the distinction between the commission of sin by the unconverted and the power of indwelling corruption as it strives with grace in the converted.”

“Thus, it is certain that nothing can cause a change in God‟s decrees.”

“According to that decree He actually adopts the elect—each at his own time.”

“As far as the full counsel of God is concerned, Scripture reveals as much as we need to know to believe, to live holily, and to be comforted.”