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William Perkins Quotes
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“Preach one Christ by Christ to the praise of Christ.”
“The Word of God alone is to be preached, in its perfection and inner consistency. Scripture is the exclusive subject of preaching, the only field in which the preacher is to labour.”
“He who would be a faithful minister of the gospel must deny the pride of his heart, be emptied of ambition, and set himself wholly to seek the glory of God in his calling.”
“Those families wherein this service of God is performed, are (as it were) little churches, yea, even a kind of Paradise upon earth.”
“The lesser we discern pride in ourselves, the more it reigns in our hearts.”
“Wicked thoughts are deadly evils.”
“Whatever afflictions, curses, and punishments are in the world, they are ordained by God for the sin of man.”
“Predestination is the decree of God, by which he has ordained all men to a certain and everlasting estate.”
“The most lovely garment that ever we can wear is the robe of Christ's righteousness!”
“The benefits proper unto men are of two sorts: some are common to all men both and bad, and some proper to the elect and faithful.”
“but the bond is conditional, according to the tenor of the covenant of grace: for we are bound to believe in Christ, if we would come to life everlasting”
“and seriously bethink thyself of Christ, as he is revealed in the history of the Gospel, and as he is offered to thy particular person, in the ministry of the word and sacraments.”
“He offereth them to many, and they are sufficient to save all mankind; but all shall not be saved thereby, because by faith they will not receive them.”
“There is but one will in God: yet doth it not equally will all things, but in divers respects it doth will and nill the same thing.”
“the desolation of Jerusalem may be a glass to every one of us, who in these days of God's merciful visitation, set the ministry of the Gospel at naught.”
“The body of Scripture is a doctrine sufficient to live well. It comprehends many holy sciences of which one is principal, and the others are handmaids or attendants.”
“Let prayer be the key to open the morning and the bar to shut the evening.”
“God's manner of creating, and also of governing, is such that by his word alone he produced all sorts of things without any instruments, means, assistance, or motion.”
“The principal science is Theology. Theology is the science of living blessedly forever. Blessed life consists in the knowledge of God.”
“The word of God must be our rule and square whereby we are to frame and fashion all our actions.”
“Set up and maintain the private worship of God in your family.”
“We must, in ourselves, be like the wounded man that lay in the road, that Christ Jesus the true Samaritan may come by us to dress our wounds, and to power his own precious blood into our souls.”
“Thou art a Minister of the Word: Mind thy business.”
“Lord, especially forgive my sins of omission.”
“Preach one Christ, by Christ, to the praise of Christ.”
“Preaching is the allurer of the soul, by which our self-willed minds are subdued and changed from an ungodly and pagan life-style to a life of Christian faith and repentance.”