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“As in a building, some bring stones, some timber, some perhaps bring only nails; yet all these are useful, these all serve to fasten the work in the building.”
“The foot should not desire the hand's employ--or the eye's higher seat.”
“Would not Joseph, too, in exhorting his brethren not quarrel along the way, remind them that they were journeying towards one home and to one father?”
“For, as David says, Ps. 14, ‘God is in the generation of the just.’ God is in every one of them; but when there are more together, there is more of God among them, and he shines more.”
“There is then no member in a church but what is necessary and helpful, and no one can say that he hath no need of another.”
“By that which has outwardly appeared, who would think that a few people that were contemptible to the world were actually God’s pleasant portion?”
“The Church did never shine more bright in holiness, then when it was under the greatest persecution.”
“Speaking the truth in love," is the substance of our Christian profession.”
“How near the enemies of God’s people are to ruin and destruction.”
“God can send forth his Spirit when he pleases, and give all our churches and professors a new face, in the verdure and flourishing of his grace in them.”
“Many stones, one temple; many members, one family; many branches, one vine; many crumbs, one loaf.”
“Church differences and sects have been found in all ages, and you cannot be of the opinion of every party; when the world aboundeth with such variety of conceits, you cannot be of all at once.”
“So in this verse by the love of Christ unto His church is meant the actual declaration of His special favor in accepting them for His children and bestowing many singular blessings upon them.”
“It is said that if Christians had acted aright, the world would have been converted long before now.”
“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.”
“The result is the first religious war: the City of God versus the City of Man.”
“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!”
“And he says to me, write, blessed are they which are called to the marriage supper of the lamb.”
“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.”
“The Lord intends to glorify Himself so much in the church and though I dare not tell you the time, yet there’s nothing to the contrary that it’s possible it may be in your days and that you may live to see these times.”
“If the Spirit of God in any measure and degree be in our breasts, we will sympathize with the state of the church.”
“The church shall in the end prove victorious against all its adversaries, or providence must miss of its aim.”
“And all the prayers that ever we put up for the church will be answered, and the blessing of all will come upon the churches.”
“If any seem to make more conscience of their ways than others, they are reviled and hated for the name of Christ, which ought not to be, for among all true Christians should be brotherly love. b.”
“The ministers of God are stewards, as it were, to distribute comfort and reproof to whom it belongs.”
“The word that we translate “church” is a company that is called out from the world.”