Christ

“Jesus, our head, is already in heaven; and if the head be above water, the body cannot drown.”

“Jesus Christ is in every way sufficient to the vast desires of the soul.”

“Creatures, like pictures, are fairest at a certain distance, but it is not so with Christ; the nearer the soul approaches Him, and the longer it lives in the enjoyment of Him, still the sweeter and more desirable He becomes.”

“He is bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, a garment to the naked, healing to the wounded; and whatever a soul can desire is found in Him.”

“He feels all our sorrows, needs, and burdens as his own.”

“How dangerous it is to join anything of our own to the righteousness of Christ, in pursuit of justification before God! Jesus Christ will never endure this; He will be all, or none, in our justification.”

“The gospel offer of Christ includes all His offices, and gospel faith just so receives Him; to submit to Him, as well as to be redeemed by Him.”

“A weak Christian and a strong Christ shall be able to do all. Nothing will be too hard for that man who has the strength of Christ to enable him, and the Spirit of Christ to work with him.”

“The unsound convert takes Christ by halves. He is all for the salvation of Christ, but is not for sanctification.”

“Christ does not control his subjects by force, but is King of a willing people.”

“For a soul to come to Jesus, is the grandest event in its history.”

“Preach one Christ by Christ to the praise of Christ.”

“Wisdom without Christ is damning folly, righteousness without Christ is guilt and condemnation, sanctification without Christ is filth and sin, redemption without Christ is bondage and slavery.”

“Let us make Christ crucified our great study as Christians, and the preaching of him our main work as ministers.”

“Never was a sinner qualified for Christ. He is well qualified for us.”

“Tell him of Christ's ability and goodwill to save; that no man was ever rejected by him who cast himself upon him; that desperate cases are glorious triumphs in his art of saving.”

“The life of Christianity consists very much in our love unto Christ.”

“Without love to Christ, we are as much without spiritual life, as a carcass when the soul is fled from it is without natural life.”

“The loveliness of Christ appears not to the eye of sense, but to the eye of faith.”

“Christ is 'altogether lovely!' He is unlovely in no respect, there being no spot or blemish, no defect or imperfection, to be found in Him.”

“This acting of the heart on Christ Jesus is not so difficult a thing as is conceived.”

“A man shall as soon force fruit out of a branch broken off from the tree and withered, as work righteousness without believing in, and uniting with Christ.”

“And the soul is never cured of this disease, until conquering grace brings it back to take up its everlasting rest in God through Christ.”

“The nearer anyone is to heaven, the more earnestly he desires to be there, because Christ is there.”

“A weak faith can lay hold on a strong Christ.”

“Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.”

“It was wonderful love that Christ should rather die for us than for the angels.”

“Convince them what a contradiction it is to be a Christian, and yet to refuse to learn; for what is a Christian but a disciple of Christ?”

“Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.”

“The way of painful duty is the way of fullest comfort. Christ carrieth all our comforts in his hand: if we are out of that way where Christ is to be met, we are out of the way where comfort is to be had.”

“Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that has the possession of Him to all eternity!”

“He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Savior is unmerciful to himself.”

“Indeed this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world, namely, that a righteousness that resides with a Person in heaven should justify me, a sinner on earth.”

“God will not lightly or easily lose His people. He has provided well for us: blood to wash us in; a Priest to pray for us, that we may be made to persevere; and, in case we foully fall, an Advocate to plead our cause.”

“See that your cause be good, else Christ will not undertake it.”

“There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.”

“No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus.”

“I find my Lord Jesus cometh not in the precise way that I lay wait for Him. He hath a manner of His own. Oh, how high are His ways above my ways.”

“Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.”

“There is as much in our Lord's pantry as will satisfy all his children and as much wine in his cellar as will quench all their thirst.”

“Christ's enemies are but breaking their own heads in pieces, upon the Rock laid in Zion.”

“There is nothing that will make you a Christian indeed, but a taste of the sweetness of Christ.”

“I cry, Down with me; down, down with all the excellency of the world; and up, up with Christ!”

“There is none like Him; I would not exchange one smile of His lovely face with kingdoms.”

“They lose nothing who gain Christ.”

“Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint's prayer is put into the bow of Christ's intercession it pierces the throne of grace.”

“Kings' crowns are only crosses, but the cross of Christ is the only crown.”

“Christ is never loved, until sin is loathed.”

“What a comfort is this; when Satan is tempting, Christ is praying!”

“Christ's prayer takes away the sins of our prayers.”

“Our sins should humble us, but they must not discourage us from coming to Christ.”

“Three wishes Paul had, and they were all about Christ; that he might be found in Christ, be with Christ, and magnify Christ.”

“If Christ is not all to you He is nothing to you. He will never go into partnership as a part Saviour of men.”

“A Jesus who never wept could never wipe away my tears.”

“Have your heart right with Christ, and he will turn weekdays into Sundays, meals into sacraments, homes into temples, and earth into heaven.”

“I have a great need for Christ: I have a great Christ for my need.”

“If I am not today all that I hope to be, yet I see Jesus, and that assures me that I shall one day be like Him.”

“Wherever Jesus may lead us, He goes before us. If we don't know where we are going, we know with whom we go.”

“I must take care above all that I cultivate communion with Christ.”

“To pursue union at the expense of truth is treason to the Lord Jesus.”

“It is not great talents God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.”

“It is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you.”

“If you will have Jesus, He has you already.”

“There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for His people to make a showpiece of Him and not to use Him.”

“The heart is as insatiable as the grave till Jesus enters it, and then it is a cup full to overflowing.”

“A sermon without Christ in it is like a loaf of bread without any flour in it.”

“When you plead the name of Christ, you plead that which shakes the gates of hell and that which the hosts of heaven obey.”

“Each burden we have to carry has once been laid on the shoulders of Immanuel.”

“If we cannot all feel alike, we can all feed alike on the Bread of Life.”

“If we were more near to Jesus, we would be more near to one another.”

“You may lose a great deal for Christ, but you will never lose anything by Christ.”

“As all the rivers run into the sea, so all delights centre in our Beloved.”

“It is a most blessed thing to have no props and no buttresses, but to stand upright on the Rock of Ages.”

“In Him you have redemption, out of Him you are in bondage.”

“He who does not long to know more of Christ, knows nothing of Him yet.”

“The best way to preach men to Christ is to preach Christ to men.”

“Down deep in His innermost soul Christ carried an inexhaustible treasury of refined and heavenly joy.”

“The bruised Savior is the healing of bruised hearts.”

“As there is the most heat nearest to the sun, so there is the most happiness nearest to Christ.”

“Do you not see that the word, 'God with us,' puts impossibility out of all existence?”

“What the law could not do Jesus has done.”

“Spiritual knowledge of Christ will be a personal knowledge. I cannot know Jesus through another person's acquaintance with Him.”

“Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior.”

“Let this be to you the mark of true Gospel preaching, where Christ is everything, and the creature is nothing.”

“You are no Christian if you do not pray. A prayerless soul is a Christless soul.”

“My faith rests not in what I am, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me.”

“The world and you must part, or Christ and you will never meet.”

“Get Christ and get all; miss Christ and miss all.”

“God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but what we are in the Lord Jesus; both our persons and our prayers are acceptable in the beloved.”

“Christ dwells in that heart most eminently that hath emptied itself of itself.”

“Every thing that a man leans upon but God, will be a dart that will certainly pierce his heart through and through. He who leans only upon Christ, lives the highest, choicest, safest, and sweetest life.”

“What is honor, and riches, and the favor of creatures, so long as I lack the favor of God, the pardon of my sins, a saving interest in Christ, and the hope of glory! O Lord, give me these, or I die!”

“Christ is lovely, Christ is very lovely, Christ is most lovely, Christ is always lovely, Christ is altogether lovely.”

“They do not love Christ who love anything more than Christ.”

“There are five things that God will never sell at a cheap rate: Christ, truth, his honour, heaven, and assurance.”

“Christ doth not love believers with a low, flat, dull, common love, with such a love as most men love one another with, but with a love that is like himself.”

“We should study Christ, and praise and bless God, and have our hearts enlarged for Jesus Christ. This is the duty of believers to whom God has revealed Christ as wonderful.”

“Glory in nothing, but only in this, that you are in Christ. For God chose you in him; the being you had was in him before the world was.”

“In Christ are treasures that will require digging to the end of the world.”

“If I were to go to heaven, and find that Christ was not there, I would leave immediately; for heaven without Christ would be hell to me.”

“Heaven would be hell to me without Christ.”

“Christ's riches are unsearchable, and this doctrine of the gospel is the field this treasure is hidden in.”

“Being in Christ, and united to Him, is the fundamental constitution of a Christian.”

“In God's sight there are two men, Adam and Jesus Christ, and these two men have all other men hanging at their girdle strings.”

“The Spirit prays in you, because Christ prays for you. He is an intercessor on earth, because Christ is an intercessor in heaven.”

“So, says Christ, injuries and unkindnesses do not so work upon me as to make me irreconcilable; it is my nature to forgive: "I am meek.”

“We are justified, not by giving anything to God, but by receiving from God, what Christ has done for us.”

“Christ is the door that opens into God's presence and lets the soul into His very bosom. Faith is the key that unlocks the door. The Spirit is He who makes this key.”

“Christ will bear no equal, and Satan no superior, therefore you cannot serve both.”

“A direct act of saving faith is that by which a lost sinner goes out of himself to Christ for help.”

“He is well qualified for us; but a sinner out of Christ has no qualification for Christ but sin and misery.”

“I have no name to come to God but in Christ. My own name is abominable to myself.”

“No other name is given under heaven, but that of Jesus Christ, in which a sinner may safely approach unto God.”

“Next to Christ I have one joy: to preach Christ my Lord.”

“The most lovely garment that ever we can wear is the robe of Christ's righteousness!”

“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.”

“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.”

“Christ by his death, destroying the works of the devil, procuring the Spirit for us, hath so killed sin, as to its reign in believers, that it shall not obtain its end and dominion.”

“If Christ be chosen for the foundation of our supply, he will not fail us.”

“A true saving knowledge of sin is to be had only in the Lord Christ; in Him alone we can see the desert of our iniquities.”

“There neither is, nor ever was, in the world, nor ever shall be, the least dram of holiness, but what, flowing from Jesus Christ, is communicated by the Spirit, according to the truth and promise of the gospel.”

“Christ is our best friend, and ere long will be our only friend.”

“The more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world wither in my eyes.”

“On Christ's glory I would fix all my thoughts and desires, and the more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes, and I will be more and more crucified to this world.”

“No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by faith.”

“We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its pages.”

“A man may take the measure of his growth or decay in grace according to his thoughts and meditations upon the person of Christ, and the glory of His Kingdom, and of His love.”

“To those to whom Christ is the hope of future glory, he is also the life of present grace.”

“Unless we are thoroughly convinced that without Christ we are under the eternal curse of God, as the worst of His enemies, we shall never flee to Him for refuge.”

“We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.”

“You love him not, because you know him not.”

“Had not God set forth the Lord Christ, all the angels in heaven and men on earth could not have apprehended that there had been any such thing in the nature of God as this grace of pardoning mercy.”

“Do not plunge straight into prayer or worship, but spend time meditating on the glory of Christ first, and in this way the graces necessary for carrying out that duty will be roused and ready.”

“This blood therefore cries from heaven; it is next to God, who sits as Judge there, and it cries in His very ears, whereas the cry of blood from the ground is further off.”

“That you are on this side the torments of the damned, not beyond praying, and hearing, and hoping, is all through Christ's securing for you longer time.”

“Christ died, not because God the Father hated—but because He loved the world.”

“We see in Christ a marvelous temper of absolute holiness, with great moderation.”

“Does not God command thee to come to Christ? and is not thy delay a greater act of disobedience than the complaint of thy sinfulness can be of humility?”

“There he finds God pacified, and righteousness taking the sinner's side.”

“Christ's flesh was perfect, though earthly: without sin, though of the substance of a sinful woman; unblemished in every part, yet sensitive to all our sinless infirmities.”

“He desires the worship of earth no less than that of heaven.”

“He was so much the friend of man, that he was willing to lay down his life for human redemption.”

“It was real flesh that Christ took; not the image of a body (as the Manichees erroneously held), but a true body; therefore he is said to be ‘made of a woman.’ Gal 4: 4.”

“He loved them when they were polluted in their sins, and washed them with His own blood; He loved them when they were naked in their souls, and clothed them with robes of His righteousness.”

“Had I a thousand tongues—should I not employ them all in speaking His praise!”

“He created and made all things, and he made them all by Jesus Christ, and therefore he shall have the first-fruits of every one, and of every sort of thing.”

“We have our grace and glory by measure, but Christ had the Spirit without measure.”

“This agony, this wrestling, was therefore with his Father’s wrath, which now had taken hold on him, and under which he now lay struggling.”

“And therefore, as the worth of Christ’s person was infinite, so must the worth of his actions be.”

“To deny, therefore, that the faith of the Old Testament saints was a faith in the Messiah and his redemption, is to deny that they had any knowledge of the import of the revelations and promises of which they were the recipients.”

“Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples’ (RV).”

“Therefore the promise of life to Christ's spiritual seed, was made chiefly to Christ himself; and to them only in and through him.”

“Now, though Christ's obedience be the principal, and our faith the secondary condition; yet, usually, in propounding the Covenant of Grace, the former is silenced, and the latter only mentioned.”

“And what is it that makes Christ so happy but that He is equal with God the Father?”

“He is an intercessor on earth because Christ is an intercessor in heaven.”

“But Christ and the Father, both the persons are in one substance, in one essence.”

“Whether I have a race to run, or some work to do, I see not; but I think Christ seemeth to leave heaven (to say so), and His court, and come down to laugh, and play, and sport with a daft bairn.”

“First, The great journey that he has taken, from heaven to earth, on purpose to save sinners, strongly demonstrates his willingness to save them.”

“But Christ, after he was 'manifest in the flesh,' and had done the work here that he had to do, he was 'received up to glory;' that is, all baseness was laid aside.”

“Great was the loss in Adam; but far greater is the gain in Christ!”

“Let but one flaw be found in Him, and salvation's pillar moulders into dust.”

“Wave now and ever the glorious banner--"Christ is all." Thus dwell within the Camp, and you will reign upon the throne.”

“This is Christ's prayer, that the saints may be with him in his kingdom, and be bespangled with some of the beams of his glory.”

“If one might, by a figure, speak of the veil as living and sentient, might we not say that it dreaded the rending.”

“Come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." But it is to heaven we look for the soul's perfect and changeless happiness.”

“He headeth them all in Christ; and what saith Christ? ‘My sheep shall no man take out of my hand.’ If angels and men be once bottomed on Christ, they can never be parted again.”

“We see what great friends do procure oftentimes with but a word speaking, even that which money, no, nor anything could have obtained.”

“I may as well think to climb up to heaven, and take hold of Christ there, and go down into the deep, and come up with Christ there in my heart, as to believe this.”

“It is Christ who is that true tabernacle to be in heaven, which not man but God pitched, and was to be the ark of his testament, as Christ under the new testament is called.”

“And the flesh of Christ is in heaven and shall there abide till the last judgment.”

“And as Christ’s death was voluntary, so was it also an accursed death; and therefore it is called the death of the cross.”

“He wanted to make known the heights and depths of His love, and nothing except the depths of our misery could have drawn them out.”

“We cannot be one with Him as Christ is, for He is the brightness of His glory, the express image and character of His person; He is the natural Son of God and of the same nature with God.”

“The first Adam is the father of all that perish; the second Adam is the father of all that shall be saved.”

“The spiritual presence of Christ is necessary for the preparation and opening of the people's heart to receive and embrace the gospel to salvation; not a heart will open to receive Christ till the spirit of Christ unlock them.”

“For a tender heart is sensible of the miseries of the church, as being members of the same body, whereof Christ is the head.”

“We are all a part of one mystical body, whereof Christ is the head.”

“In the days of his flesh he dictated a form of prayer unto his disciples, and put petitions unto God into their mouths, and his Spirit to intercede in their hearts.”

“Christ takes them, and with his own blood cleanseth them: and will never leave washing and cleansing of the soul, till he hath cleansed it from all its spots, and presented it before the Father.”

“By his blood he entered into the holy place; by his blood he hath made an atonement for us before the mercy-seat.”

“I think your love to Christ should be raised to a high tide—and run with a strong stream!”

“Tell me, O Christians, are not the gifts which Christ has conferred upon you, special gifts?”

“O let heaven and earth stand amazed at the condescension of the Bridegroom, and the folly of sinners in refusing such a match!”

“Whatever, then, rises between the soul and Christ- whatever would tend to satisfy the soul in His absence- whatever would take His place in the affections, must be surrendered.”

“He had a Son to give away, and his Son a life, a kingdom; and both of them agreed to do it.”

“Just as the tomb of Christ was sealed to prevent desecration by thieves and robbers, so we are sealed to prevent the evil one from snatching us from the arms of Christ.”

“It is the blood that emboldens us to draw near to God, and justifies God in drawing near to us. 'Let us draw near' is the voice of the blood, speaking both from the altar and the mercy seat.”

“The Father did give the Son a work to do, and He did promise to Him a reward upon its accomplishment.”

“His intercession is the spring that puts all the wheels in motion, that are set a-going, in the time of loves, for bringing one out of the state of nature, into a state of grace.”

“And so Christ has this glory given on the occasion of His being a Redeemer, and that He is a Redeemer; for He was slain, and without that He would not have been a Redeemer.”

“Christ is the one that the Lord prophesied of in Paradise formerly .”

“How welcome will that day of Christ’s espousal and coronation, be to his love–sick spouse, as the dove with the olive leaf was to Noah, or the reappearing of the star to the wise men!”

“So every Christian is dearly bought, with the blood of Christ.”

“Oh, for the help of angels' tongues, to make Christ eye-sweet and amiable to many thousands!”

“The justified sinner is every moment dependent on his Saviour, without whom he can do nothing.”

“But Christ will be no underling to any base affection, and therefore, where there is allowance of ourselves in any sinful lust, it is a sign the keys were never given up to Christ to rule us.”

“As when a physician comes into an house where many are sick, and cures one that is desperate, it is an encouragement to the rest to rely upon his skill.”

“The names are on His breast—a token that, while His heart beats, it beats for them.”

“Now, however your persons or my person may fall in this trial, yet the cause in which we are engaged shall as surely conquer as Christ is alive and shall prevail at last.”

“He rose again for me, he is now in heaven for me, as carrying me in his breast.”

“Thus you deal with Christ and thrust Him away from you, though He comes upon the most welcome errand, and ought to be received with all readiness and thankfulness.”

“Why, Jesus Christ had dishonor put upon him; he was called Beelzebub, and a Samaritan, and they said he had a devil in him.”

“None but God could satisfy justice, and bring in everlasting righteousness sufficient for lost men.”

“By the vine there I understand Christ, Christ as head; by the branches, I understand this church.”

“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.”

“And, my brethren, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, as he is married thus to his church, he will shew himself the most fond and perfect lover that ever was.”

“He that hath the Son hath life: and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.’ This is the great record of God the Father concerning his Son; and he that believes not the record God gives of his Son, makes God a liar.”

“And being a perfect savior in Himself, He needs no partner, and because He is everywhere at all times, therefore He needs no deputy in His stead.”

“Satan was the strong man armed whom Christ came to dispossess and to deliver from him those who were led captive by him at his will.”

“They come into the covenant, and abide also in it, under his wings allenarly; expecting no benefit of it, nor by it, but through him.”

“Reynolds puts it very beautifully: "Every promise seized upon in faith leads a man to Christ and to the consideration of our union with him.”

“He should be the dearer to us, the more vile and base he was made for us, and he should be most lovely in our eyes, when he was least lovely in his own, and when he was deformed, when our sins were upon him.”

“I cannot but recommend Him unto you, as your Husband, your Wellbeloved, your Portion, your Comfort, and your Joy.”

“That he is a good Savior, a good Redeemer, a good Lord and Master; a good excelling, transcending all inferior, sublunary good; good! not only good, but best — best in himself, and best for us!”

“Christ is a Covenant-Head, the Head of the Covenant of Grace.”

“If the government of the world be in the hands of Christ, Then our engaging and entitling of Christ to all our affairs and business, is the true and ready way to their success and prosperity.”

“He must take the offender's legal place, bear the offender's legal burden, endure the offender's legal curse.”

“In one sense every eye shall see Him; but in the true and blessed meaning of the word, He shall appear, or show Himself only to those who are now looking to Him as the Saviour.”

“Faith will do all that Christ commands, depending upon him for strength; and who so depends upon Christ for strength in one duty, will depend upon him for strength in another.”

“Jesus delivers from wrath by His death—having therein undergone it Himself—in place of His people.”

“A 'good conscience' comes to us through the blood upon the mercy-seat.”

“Saving faith hath Christ for its object, and so may the faith have that is not saving.”

“And Jesus Christ will not condemn them, for believers are His spouse; and Christ will not condemn His own spouse.”

“Brutes are not capable of this love to Christ—but you are capable.”

“This water admits no mixture—it is pure and perfect as its origin—free as the air we breathe to sustain life.”

“Beloved, when God exalts you, remember it is because your Savior was abased.”

“Therefore sue out the will of Christ, sue out that last legacy of his.”

“They cannot desire his coming to them, so much as he desires their coming to him.”

“As God the first person, by way of singularity, ordinarily is called the Father, ‘one God, the Father;’ so frequently in the same way of singularity is Christ termed the Son, in relation unto this God as the Father.”

“There was an allusion in the sufferings of Christ in the garden, unto the first temptation in a garden.”

“He joins our nature first with God in his own person, and makes both one there, that so God and man becoming one in person, he might the easilier make God and man one in covenant.”

“For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.’ He came to untie the band, and to destroy the works of the devil.”

“Christ is a Prince and Saviour, but not to save men in an absolute way, whether or not they repent.”

“Charnock says, "He who has many things to trust to, is in suspense which he should take hold of; but when there is but one left, with what greediness will he clasp about that.”

“Though his purpose was that of redeeming a world, and though he knew that his personal ministry on earth would be very short, yet he never neglected communion with God.”

“Christ, however, was not a human person: his human body and soul together were united to his divine person. 2.”

“The work of redemption accomplished by Christ as our surety is no mere possibility or potentiality.”

“It is no less clear that the Redeemer is the same under all dispensations.”

“The Son of God was thus to see of the travail of his soul and be satisfied.”

“I am sure the apostle never leaves him out; no, not in election and adoption, nor in anything, and not now, when he comes to heaven; whatever he speaks of, Christ comes in.”

“Where the judge appoints a counsel, it is a sign he favoureth the cause.”

“Now I have quitted myself of death, and sin imputed to me as a surety, and I am going to heaven to make an end of all there: ‘I ascend to God, to my God and to your God.’ We have all one common Father, and one common God.”

“When He first looked on me, I was saved; it cost Him but a look to make hell quit of me!”

“From this subject, you may observe the following DOCTRINE, Our Lord Jesus is appointed of his Father, to be the Physician of broken-hearted sinners, to bind them up, and heal them.”

“If the virtue of the death of Christ be taken away, all the joy of believers goes with it: for it stands only in this.”

“It was not so much for flesh to suffer—but for God to be made flesh—this was the wonder of humility!”

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

“Oh, how do you dishonor Christ before his enemies, when you make them think all your religion lies in talking of it!”

“His sympathy is theirs, that He may have a fellow-feeling in all their infirmities, and a brother's pity in all their griefs.”

“And seeing the end is certain, we are thus afresh to enter into this ark, Jesus Christ.”

“So much the more dearer he should be unto us, the more base he was for us.”

“Surely above all others he endured the contradiction of sinners against himself.”

“His strength was dried up like a potsherd, that we might be strong in the Lord.”

“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.”

“It is this living upon Christ for all he needs, this going to Christ under all circumstances and at all seasons, which forms the happy and holy life of a child of God.”

“In this very point stands the dignity of the passion, whereby it differs from all other sufferings of men whatsoever.”

“And that is, an high esteem of Christ and his covenant, an ardent desire of union and communion with him, a longing for his righteousness, as a hungry man longs for meat, or a thirsty man for drink.”

“He takes of all things in heaven and of all things in earth, and He makes them up to Christ as a Head, one body.”

“And therefore we must every day live upon this branch of his priestly office, his mediation.”

“In him are the fulness of all riches, the treasures of all wisdom and knowledge.”

“Lastly, This is a comfortable consideration, that he that waited upon you so long, and won your hearts at last; that hath gained you at the expence of so much pains and patience, will not now forsake you.”

“It flashes no more curse, and rolls no more condemnation over the heads of those who are in Christ Jesus.”

“A Saviour will be as welcome a sight to them, as a rope cast out from the shore will be to a drowning man.”

“Indeed, he was the Son of God, but he appeared in abased flesh, in the form of a 'servant.' He was crucified.”

“Cursed sin! you were the knife that stabbed him: you the sword that pierced him.”

“Believer, what will it be to gaze on the manifested beauty of Him, who is so altogether lovely!”

“He who, years before, had gone forth, leaving all for Christ, counting all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus,—he now, as if he had never gone forth at all, cries aloud, let us go forth!”

“We shall have far other thoughts of Jesus when we see him as he is; and shall then be able to make a more affecting estimate of the love which moved him to be made a substitute and a curse for us.”

“When Christ has fasted forty days, and is hungry, the devil comes and tempts him with the glory of the world.”

“The priest that was the representator of all Israel, when he went into the holiest, was not to go in, but as sprinkled with blood first (Exo 29).”

“But nothing in the world is as needful to the body—as the Lord Jesus Christ is unto the soul.”

“O then, be persuaded, without further delay, to endeavor after this saving interest in Christ!”

“But the riches of Christ do both keep off calamities, and make up the lack of all mercies that the soul craves or needs.”

“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!”

“How worthy of such an infinite Fountain of love and grace is His "unspeakable gift." It came from a large heart; and the heart that gave Jesus will withhold no good thing from those who walk uprightly.”

“Now, says Christ, "I delight to do your will, O my God;" it is the joy and rejoicing of my heart to be a-seeking and a-saving lost sinners.”

“Now this hath God done for us, without us, in this choice of his Christ and our Lord.”

“Now Christ elsewhere gives us this rule of nature, to judge of the tree by the fruits, to proceed by in matters of grace also.”

“Secondly, There is comfort concerning such infirmities, in that your very sins move him to pity more than to anger.”

“Whereby is meant, that cleaving to Christ by faith and obedience, whereby we do profess him to be our Saviour, and do put our confidence in him.”

“Now Christ lives not the natural life but, as He is God, lives the uncreated life, and as He is man He lives the spiritual life, His body and soul having all their subsisting and sustentation in the second person in [the] Trinity.”

“Of old for thousands of years the pious believed in a Savior to come.”

“To which of Christ's three offices does his work of intercession belong?”

“The Lord's Supper points forward to the second coming of Christ.”

“And pray consider, how can ye take him or receive him as your Saviour, if he is not yours indeed?”

“He was in agony; he "continued all night in prayer," Luke vi. 2.”

“Again, Christ takes all the prayers of the seed of Jacob, and tenders them up to his Father for acceptance.”

“How welcome will that day of Christ’s espousal and coronation , be to his love – sick spouse , as the dove with the olive leaf was to Noah , or the reappearing of the star to the wise men!”

“Our great Redeemer and Liberator has gone before us to prepare a place for His people, and when He comes again — our redemption will be complete.”

“And then yet further, know, that through the righteousness of Christ, thou art looked upon thy self, in the point of Justification, without spot too.”

“He has as much love in his heart to pity us—and as much strength in his arm to help us!”

“Christ's government brings the very thoughts and desires, which are the most immediate and free issue of the soul, into obedience.”

“Now he that hath the Spirit of God knows the love of God in Christ to him; it reveals the love of God, the height, and breadth, and depth of it to our spirits.”

“Therefore, because in love he would die, and be a sacrifice, he would take upon him such a nature wherein he might be a sacrifice.”

“But at present the Church sees her Bridegroom only by the eye of faith.”

“He is the Covenant, because, as God-man, He takes it into His own hand, and works out its every condition.”

“Thus Christ, God's sacrifice for sin, is taken from earth's sons.”

“Ere it could come fully out into view, the ritual must be disannulled; ere the glorious building can be seen, the scaffolding must be taken down.”

“That death was like the touching of the electric wire between Calvary and Moriah, setting loose suddenly the divine power that for a thousand years had been lying in wait to rend the veil and cast down the barrier.”

“The victory and the triumph were to be his; and, if his, then also ours.”

“Christ did not rise from the dead as a private person, but as the public head of the church; and the head being raised, the rest of the body shall not always lie in the grave.”

“This is that garment that covereth all his body mystical, and that hideth the blemishes of such members from the eye of God, and of the law.”

“Let the ambitious man take the honors of the world, so I may but have Christ.”

“He is a jewel more worth than a thousand worlds—as all know that have him.”

“This river proceeds out of the throne, and so, as to its rise, it is special; it is also called the water of life, and as it is such, it is special; but as it is a river it is common, and of common use, and for common good.”

“About twelve, when the sun is usually brightest, it began now to darken, and this darkness was so great that it spread over all the land of Jerusalem; yes, some think over all the world.”

“You must know, brethren, God the Father, who is the great quickener, he is the author, the great fountain of life; and Jesus Christ, as God-man, hath life given from the Father to him that he might raise us.”

“Believers, by the virtue and strength of Christ, conquerors over the devil.”

“And as Christ’s promise is to be with us to the end of the world, so this must be our course to the end of the world.”

“Christ was the Son of God when he rose again, because he was discovered by his glorious resurrection to be so indeed.”

“He looks upon scorners as spitting upon Christ, and worldlings as preferring Barabbas before Christ—and this makes him groan.”

“Oh, how little doth this world see of Him, and how far are they from the love of Him, seeing there is so much loveliness, beauty, and sweetness in Christ, that no created eye did ever yet see!”

“Christ is held forth as a Redeemer, and his great work as a redemption.”

“His merit covers all our defects, and his intercession recommends us unto God.”

“The riches of a believer stands in the poverty of Christ; and every true believer counts Christ's poverty his riches.”

“If part of his merits be enough to save ten thousand damned souls in hell, if they had applied it, is it not enough to satisfy God for thy sins, which are far less?”

“Think of God born of a virgin, of God lying in the cradle, sucking the breast!”

“When His own hands brought His own life a victim to the altar-cross, all 'typical' functions were fulfilled.”

“They open out redemption's scheme, but never clasp redemption's Lord.”

“His person is the great vessel of fullness, in which is contained all that is needed by the neediest of souls.”

“All our springs of life, strength, peace, and comfort, are in him; and without him we can do nothing.”

“The dignity of His person, put an infinite merit on His sufferings—and so His sufferings became a sufficient satisfaction to justice, and that was accepted as fully as if sinners had done it in their own persons.”

“Labor for a thorough understanding of the covenant , both the covenant which God made with Christ on behalf of man—and the covenant which God has made with man through Christ.”

“Is there any way for you to escape—but by Jesus Christ, the only Deliverer from wrath to come?”

“Remember that the holiest saints or apostles could never please the world, nor escape their censures, slanders, and cruelties, no, nor Jesus Christ himself.”

“Hence, as I said, it is told us, not only that he is the Son of God's love, but that he increased in favour with God; that is, by a going on in doing, by a continuing to do that always that pleased the God of heaven.”

“How strong was the love of the Apostles unto Christ—when they left all and followed Him, especially after the resurrection of Christ and His ascension into heaven.”

“You prefer a soul-murdering lust to the glorious Bridegroom, like the Jews, who preferred Barabbas unto Jesus.”

“There was none fit to umpire the business between God and man—but he who was God-man.”

“And like as he cured diseases, by taking them on himself by sympathy, it is said of him, when his healing of them is recorded, himself took our infirmities, and bore our sicknesses.”

“It is Christ, in whom the soul rests and hath comfort in, and not in its grace; so that the sight of a man’s grace is but a back-door to let faith in at, to converse with Christ, whom the soul loves.”

“So doth Jesus Christ spread forth beams of truth into believers’ hearts, and by them comes into their hearts, as the sun is said to do; when the beams of it come into a house, you say the sun comes in.”

“And Christ is ‘not ashamed’ of us, his poor kindred; but being allied to us by his nature, he deigns to call us brethren, and is grieved that we come no oftener to him, with petitions of favour to be put up by him.”

“It was, indeed, the part of the law to justify in man’s primitive state, and to that it was ordained; but Christ only attained the accomplishment of this design.”

“Oh! what a value then would be set upon a king’s becoming a ransom himself, yea, of the great God made one person with our nature, and of his giving himself a ransom, who is the King of kings.”

“The devil sinned from the beginning, and drew men after him, and set up his design; and Christ was promised from the beginning, and in the end appeared to break this design of Satan.”

“For one stage of our lives our hearts run after him for his blood to wash away our sins, and for his righteousness to cover us in the presence of God.”

“Thou comest to take Jesus Christ, with all the life of Christ, and all that belongs unto him.”

“Christ did not set up a doctrinal principle for government and policy in the speculation, but such an one as is practical.”

“First, the object of Abraham’s faith was double: one less principal, that he should have issue in his old age; the second more principal, that the Messiah his redeemer should descend of his loins.”

“If Christ be a savior, He must be a perfect savior, considering He is God and man.”

“And it is as great pride and greater for any to presume to be head of all churches in Christ’s presence than for a man to sit vice-regent in the presence of the prince.”

“Now, He is the firstborn of the dead in that He has this dignity and privilege to rise to eternal life the first of all men.”

“He stood in their stead, and they were viewed as one with Him from His cradle to His cross, and from His cross to His throne.”

“But Christ brings us another name, in which there is the forgiveness of sins, that for His sake sins are remitted and pardoned.”

“It is 'drink indeed.' It calms, it revives, it refreshes, it soothes; it is like cold water to the thirsty lips under a scorching sun.”

“An obligation was assumed by the Son to accomplish the work assigned Him; and an obligation was assumed by the Father to grant Him the stipulated reward.”

“But it was Christ, and Christ alone, who came into the world to destroy the works of the Devil.”

“Christ is the anointed King, not only over His church, but also He has been given to her as Head over all things.”

“That we may not forfeit our interest in His meekness, let us tread in the steps of it; and as ever we hope to be like Him in glory hereafter, let us study to be like Him in grace, in this grace now.”

“Let no sinner be dismayed by the atrocity and heinousness of sins past, from coming unto Jesus Christ for remission and peace.”

“But our Lawgiver, God over all, has cast into the shade every such act of homage to law by the infinitude of suffering he in our nature endured, to honour the law of heaven and save the doomed transgressors.”

“Believe in Christ, and you are linked with the bliss of eternity.”

“Christ first comes in the heart by grace, and then the soul, having tasted the sweetness of it, longs for another coming.”

“Take heed of being ashamed of Jesus Christ in any service of his; his service in the meanest works of it, is a greater honour to you, then you can be to it.”

“That day shall be a happy day indeed, when the High Priest comes forth to do the third, last, and completing part of His work—to bless His believing people.”

“So that a man may lawfully, under the guidance and conduct of the Spirit of God, direct his prayer immediately to the person of Christ.”

“Oh come with hungerings after Christ and be assured of satisfaction!”

“The Pharisees would never have persecuted him and hated him, if they had seen him to have been such a person as he was; but he veiled his glory that he might suffer.”

“Christ must fight his way into the soul, though he have a right to enter, as into his dearly purchased possession.”

“I gladly give myself, my all, my every word, my every work, to my Redeemer's cause.”

“The Lord by His Spirit—reveals Himself as the only Savior and all-sufficient one, who is most willing to save and deliver them.”

“You must renounce your own righteousness as imperfect and insufficient, apprehending and applying, resting and trusting in Christ's perfect righteousness. 4.”

“Hold the truths of Christ fast, prize them above all jewels; do not part with them upon any terms.”

“A saint may say, "In having nothing, I have all things, because I have Christ.”

“Well, remember this once for all, such as rest on duties, such as rest on their own righteousness, or on anything on this side Christ—such shall find them to be useless.”

“God had given Jesus Christ, by choosing him to the union with our nature, an infinite glory.”

“As he hath ordained Jesus Christ to be the great medium or means betwixt us and himself, so he hath ordained faith as the principal instrument in us to treat with Christ.”

“For at the very time when He bore our sins, He was in Himself more holy than all men, and all angels.”

“It offers to the sinner a reversal of the sentence of death, by presenting him with the death of another in his stead.”

“I have nothing to do with Christ, nor he with me; for I am a sinner, a lost sinner." Nay, upon that very ground there is a relation between him and you.”

“He took our flesh and carried it into heaven, and left us His Spirit on earth, both being pawns and earnests that we should follow.”

“He did the same when He suffered: “Not my will, but thine be done,” which was His motto from first to last.”

“Our first state in the first Adam was not firm, but now our nature is taken into the unity of the second person, it is firm.”

“Christ is a master, and sin is a master; yea, and masters are they so opposite, that he that at all shall cleave to the one shall by the other be counted his enemy.”

“Ye should forbear and forgive one another, as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.”

“Look, then, O believer, to Christ the living vine to make you fruitful of holiness.”

“Oh, but Christ hath a saving eye! salvation is in His eyelids!”

“For though Christ was made a curse to redeem us from the curse — yet those only have the saving benefits of that redemption, who have found faith in, and sincere love to, Jesus Christ.”

“For if sin be so dreadful a thing as to wring the heart of the Son of God, how shall a poor wretched sinner be able to bear it?”

“Then all who have served Christ with the heart shall hear Him say, “Come, you who are blessed of My Father — receive the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world!”

“Was not Christ charged with as great sins as thine can be when he was upon the cross?”

“The Righteousness needed by us, and presented to us, is His obedience.”

“The great sacrifice has met law and righteousness at every point.”

“He is the fountain of life, strength, grace and comfort—and of his fullness his children receive according to their needs.”

“In it is no temple; for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.”

“He only can fill us; and with his fulness set our hearts at rest.”

“Could you see the glances of His eye, and the sweet smiles of His lovely face—your hearts would be overcome and ravished with love, and filled with ecstasies of joy and ineffable delight!”

“Reveal your affection unto Him in your imitation of Him, in writing after His copy, in treading in His steps, in walking as Christ Himself walked when He was here upon the earth.”

“Lay up this truth, feed upon this honey-comb. [2.] Secondly, Get this principle rooted upon your hearts, namely, That none ever yet obtained an interest in Christ but unworthy creatures.”

“As he is the Saviour of his church, which is his body, so he will come and fetch her at the last unto himself.”

“Christ will have, not only every knee to bow, but every tongue to confess his name.”

“Let us be content to decrease, that he may increase, as John did; and, like the moon, the nearer we come to this sun, the more we should, yea we shall, wane; it is our glory so to do.”

“Is it the holiness, the amiableness, the love, the goodness, that is in him, which draws thy heart unto him?”

“But the Son of God was as perfect afore assuming man’s nature as after, and nothing of perfection is added unto him thereby.”

“Nay, He calls unto us standing without, “Open unto me my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled.”

“Lastly, The only way to satisfy this covenant, is by faith to lay hold upon Jesus Christ the surety, and to plead his obedience and death.”

“The 'blood of the covenant' is the payment demanded by the Father, and paid by the Son.”

“There is not a doctrine concerning Christ, taught in the New Testament, which the Apostles do not affirm to have been revealed under former dispensations.”

“As the Man Christs perfect conformity to the Law of God, so as man he was oblidged to do and suffer all that he did and suffered, even to lay down his life for man.”

“Whatsoever is comfortable cometh from this spring, that God in Christ is our God, our reconciled God; that God's nature and ours now are in good terms.”

“Remember, power is only given us to do good with it; and to do good is some resemblance of Christ.”

“No man ever failed to find Christ all that the Bible says He is, and a thousand times better than he had been told before!”

“The word which cannot fail, had said, "He was numbered with the transgressors." Behold the fulfillment.”

“To barter Him for lower things, is to clasp a shadow—to snatch a husk—to pursue a mocking candle—to lean on a broken reed.”

“I need not be discontented and say, “My debt is not paid, and I am not satisfied.” Yes, you are satisfied, for he to whom you made over your debt is satisfied.”

“In fact, Christ is exalted a Prince and a Savior to this very end, that he may grant repentance and remission of sins.”

“The Lamb, then, is he from whom, by, or through whom the grace of God doth come to us.”

“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.”

“For if one promise do belong to thee, then all do, for every one conveys whole Christ, in whom all the promises are made, and who is the matter of them.”

“That our bodies at latter day shall be conformed to the image of Jesus Christ’s body, the Scripture is clear for it.”

“The saints shall be all clothed in white linen, which is the righteousness of the saints; that is, the righteousness they have by Christ, whereby they shall be righteous before God, and holy before men.”

“For till the Lord gives this special illumination whereby a man sees his own misery in himself and his great need of Christ’s righteousness, Christ is a hidden treasure unto him.”

“We must therefore labor so to live in the world that with a joyful heart at the day of death we may commend our souls into the hands of our Lord Christ Jesus, who gave them unto us.”

“Since you are a sinner of mankind, Christ is your Saviour: for he is by office Saviour of the family whereof you are a branch.”

“So you should carry along and bear along in your eye the sight and knowledge of Christ, so that at least a presence of Him accompanies you, which faith makes.”

“He is our head, husband, friend, father, brother, and whatsoever can convey comfort to us.* And the truth of it is, he is these things more truly than any relation is made true on earth.”

“And therefore Christ addeth comfort to comfort: ‘Go, tell my brethren, I ascend to my Father, and their Father; to my God, and their God.’ The message itself is Christ’s ascension.”

“They see what had been hid from their eyes so long; they see Jesus of Nazareth to be the Saviour, their God, Jehovah.”

“He who could have turned stones into bread, could as easily have turned stones into gold, and so have made his disciples rich and great in the world—but he would not.”

“Employ him in your every case, put all your cases in his hand, lay your help where the Father hath laid it.”

“Sometimes it is said that Christ gave himself, and sometimes it is said that God the Father gave Christ.”

“Will you also refuse life and happiness, by going on in your sin of not loving Christ?”

“But the Saints when they sin, they are put upon the seeking after Christ, and praising of him so much the more.”

“After we are gained to Christ ourselves, we should labour to gain others to Christ.”

“How much more shall the Blood of Christ, who through the Eternal Spirit, offered himself without spot to God, cleanse your Conscience from dead works, to serve the Living God?”

“We receive attendance of angels, for the attendance they yielded to Christ first; they attend upon us, by his direction and commission and charge from him.”

“Learn to put out yourselves, and to put in Christ for yourselves.”

“If your vileness had not been so great, his sufferings had not been so many.”

“A voice cries, "Let Reuben live and not die." There is a Savior, who delivers from this death.”

“I find Him to be all that Scripture states, and glowing saints relate, and my enormous need requires.”

“When the due time is come, Jesus appears with full redemption in His hands.”

“The men of God, with Christ on their lips—the Bible in their hands—must take their stand between the living and the dead.”

“He has the Father's heart, which beats with tenderness, incapable of diminution or of change.”

“If you have a saving interest in Jesus Christ, then you have FAITH.”

“That to which He looked forward was not so much the rending of the veil, as the result of that rending,--both for Himself and for His Church, His body, the redeemed from among men.”

“How strong was the love of the Apostles unto Christ— when they left all and followed Him, especially after the resurrection of Christ and His ascension into heaven.”

“O! this is my Beloved, this is my Friend: if I had ten thousand hearts and hands to give, he should have them all.”

“The Gospel is glad tidings of Christ, it is the message of His grace, the proclamation of His love to lost sinners.”

“This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners." And Oh, how easy it is to be saved when the Holy Spirit draws the heart to Christ!”

“When a man is stung with guilt, it is his highest wisdom in the world to look up to the brazen serpent, and not to spend his time or create torments to his own soul by perpetual poring upon his guilt.”

“There was none fit to umpire the business between God and man— but he who was God-man.”

“Therefore you know God boasteth of it; ‘I have set my king upon mine holy hill.’ Other kings are by human institution and creation; but this same Jesus Christ, he is my king, saith he.”

“If the sun were down at this instant, if there were a glass that took in the beams of it above the earth, I might always see the sun in that glass.”

“For our sakes he was despised, and his face more marred than any man’s, and so he had not the honours of this world, though he had the right to all.”

“The second question is, how by the short and temporary death of the Son of God any man can possibly be freed from eternal death and damnation which is due unto Him for the least sin?”

“The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.”

“As the great Shepherd, He gave His life for the sheep; His life was accepted instead of theirs; His death made their dying no longer necessary--no, unjust.”

“The Epistle to the Hebrews is designed in great part to show that the whole of the Old dispensation was an adumbration of the New, and that it loses all its value and import if its reference to Christ be ignored.”

“In their person he stood, making this covenant with his Father; in their name he acted, striking this bargain with him, as a surety to obey the law, and satisfy justice.”

“Wherefore there is in him such a fulness of the Spirit of holiness, as is, by the infinite efficacy thereof sufficient to sanctify the whole family of Adam, and even the worst of them.”

“And what an encouragement is this to answer again, to open our hearts to receive him, together with the elements! to embrace Christ, join with Christ, and then to keep him when we have him!”

“His mediation only can save you from the wrath of God, and from the lowest hell.”

“What perfect love must we understand here, but that which puts fear to flight, and that which animates us to a confession of Christ?”

“He refuses none who come to Him for salvation, however unworthy they may be.”

“Christ hath fiery eyes that will pierce through and through thee, will see a great deal of difference between the sin of one, and the sin of the others.”

“There is such a thirst raised in the soul, that nothing can quench it but the blood of Christ!”

“Did Christ sweat clots of blood at it, and do you make light of it?”

“Look we therefore to our sins, the curse and wrath due unto them, and all as laid on him.”

“Acquaint yourselves with the covenant God made with Christ on behalf of man.”

“Death is swallowed up in victory. 'O death,' He says, 'I will be thy plague; O grave, I will be thy destruction.' 2.”

“The sepulcher was opened and the sacred body it contained arose.”

“Are we satisfied that the way has been opened, and the blood sprinkled, so as to make it safe for us to enter?”

“It was the love of Christ which made Him to fulfill all righteousness for you.”

“But now take a Christian, as Jesus Christ is all things to him, so Jesus Christ is in him.”

“Thou comest to believe in Jesus Christ; let me ask thee this question, What is it thou aimest at in thy coming to him? what wouldest thou have from him? what wouldest thou have with him? what is thy intent, thy business with him?”

“That popish conceit deprives a man of the true comfort of the Spirit in this work of mercy; none but Christ by His obedience could ever merit at God’s hands.”

“In a garden Adam sinned, and therefore in a garden Christ was buried.”

“The Father may send the Son, may give Him a work to do, and promise Him a recompense.”

“The only difference between them and us consists in this, that they saw the Sun of Righteousness under a cloud; we, openly: they, by its reflection; we, directly.”

“And how can men, who dwell in the outermost parts of the earth, come to Jerusalem, to offer sacrifice for every sin, and every pollution, in order to avoid the curse?”

“Christ Jesus Himself has purchased it for us in His blood, He has laid the foundation of it, His blood was laid out for it; He spun this thread of glory out of His own bowels.”

“The first degree of his glory was his resurrection, after his lowest abasement in the grave.”

“Yea, and this lower kingdom of grace is but Christ's hospital, and guesthouse of sick folks, whom the brave and noble Physician, Christ, hath cured, upon a venture of life and death.”

“The time will come, and is at hand — when you, and all that you love, besides Christ, must be separated.”

“Why have you been taught to look to Jesus, while others are looking to their own goodness, or resting on some mere form of religion?”

“As has been well remarked by a profound theologian, "In his sufferings he obeyed, and in his obedience he suffered." His mediatorial work, like his robe, cannot be divided into separate parts.”

“He that will not be rich in Christ, must be poor and condemned still in the first Adam.”

“Christ has fiery eyes that will pierce through and through you.”

“What is the blood of beasts to God? the blood of all the men in the world can do nothing in this case.”

“I will come again, and receive you to myself." And will he fail to make it good when the time of the promise is come, as at death it is?”

“The Altar has many uses; but this is the main—it is the victim's dying bed.”

“He works out an infinite worthiness, that He may be to us all that His name imports, "The Lord our Righteousness." How precious is this well of truth!”

“Believe in Christ, and you are welcomed as God's child—God's heir.”

“And as in Canaan, the ark ascended Zion's hill amid triumphant shouts, so Jesus mounts on high.”

“The voice will be heard, Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you.”

“Test your interest in Christ, the only Deliverer from future wrath—by these marks and evidences .”

“The doctrine of mediation is that which chiefly distinguishes genuine Christianity from a system of pure deism.”

“His heart was melted in him like wax, that ours might be melted in penitence.”

“The effect of this exaltation on the human nature of Christ was not to annihilate it, not to sublimate it so that it ceased to be human nature, but to glorify it, to crown it with glory and honor.”

“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.”

“He has to come as at first, a poor, empty, helpless sinner, hanging on a full, rich, and all-sufficient Savior.”

“And Joshua, you know, was Jesus’ type, who was to tread upon all his enemies, and to make them his footstool.”

“Thus like as by assuming the likeness of sinful flesh, he killed the sin in our flesh; so by taking these our enmities and animosities in his flesh, he slew and abolished them; and as his death was the death of death, so of these.”

“If faith be not an apprehension that Christ is mine, wherein then lies that special application and appropriation of Christ, and the promise which is made to be in faith, and urged upon believers?”

“And the substance of the Godhead of Christ is incommunicable.”

“And yet Christ speaks no word of revenge unto them, but with all patience in the extremity of their malice and injury He prays unto His Father to forgive them.”

“He obtained eternal redemption, and by confirming the Covenant of Grace with his own blood, he passed all its promises into an unalterable testament. 46 §6.”

“It makes clear that the man who belongs to Christ need not be the prey of continual remorse.”