The Gospel

“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.”

“Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing and living out the gospel in our souls.”

“The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe.”

“Morality divorced from the doctrines of the gospel is not that holiness which the gospel requires.”

“The gospel shall be victorious.”

“Unless we deny ourselves and all our own ideas and opinions, unless we become humble and teachable, we can never receive the gospel.”

“Such as are without the gospel are in darkness and unbelief, and are hastening forward towards the regions of eternal darkness; and they do not know where they are going.”

“If you find not the smartness of the gospel, and the doctrine of grace laying this restraint upon the heart, ye are yet in your sins.”

“There is no more to do , either believe and be saved, or believe not and be damned.”

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

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

“Here is relief commensurate with all the need of all poor sin-sick souls.”

“It was with the belief of this gospel that our life began; thus let it go on.”

“I don't mean a mere historical faith, only believing the history and report which the gospel gives of Jesus Christ—what He has done and suffered.”

“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.”

“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.”

“So is it over a lost world that the heart of God has gone forth pouring itself out in all its unutterable tenderness of compassion.”

“How, to the life, doth he explain the mercy of God, and the misery of man, in the lost sheep, in the lost groat, in the lost son!”

“At the Roman Catholic Council of Trent in the sixteenth century, Rome condemned the Reformed doctrine of justification by faith alone and declared it anathema.”

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

“No doubtful text proclaims this truth. 'Come', is the constant Gospelcry.”

“Set yourselves to receive the gospel as the Lord's word to you, which worketh effectually in you that believe.”

“The answer is, "The word of faith." The Gospel-tidings about Christ; that word, which faith bears—prizes—welcomes—clings to—lives by—that record, from which delightedly it draws strength—peace—joy—comfort—glory.”

“The Father beseeches; the Saviour invites; the Spirit calls; good angels beckon; Christ's ministers entreat; and the one dear sound which they make to echo through earth, and to pierce the wanderer's ears, is, enter in.”

“There is the door of faith, the door which the grace of God hath opened to the Gentiles.”

“The presentation of truth, however forcible and clear, even though that truth were the grace of God, will only exasperate the unconverted man.”

“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.”

“Preaching the gospel, and suffering for it, are services that angels are not employed in.”

“Salvation can be conveyed by no church or minister; its nature must be studied through no ecclesiastical or priestly medium.”

“Oh therefore labor for this special illumination, for the doctrine of the gospel will never be sweet and pleasant to us, till we find this precious treasure hid therein.”

“Be ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord; the vessels, that is, the profession, for by that is as it were carried about the name and gospel of Jesus Christ.”

“O Lord, open our eyes, give us understanding to know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.”

“However briefly the message had been spoken, it left man inexcusable if he persisted in cherishing aught like a doubt.”

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

“There is no more to do, either believe and be saved, or believe not and be damned.”

“There are only two ways to walk in, the narrow way and the broad way.”

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

“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.”

“In other words, the spiritual relationship which lay at the centre of the covenant grace disclosed in both the Abrahamic and Mosaic covenants reaches its ripest fruition in the new covenant.”

“Blessed record! sweet sound! amazing truth! grand tidings worth ten thousand worlds!”

“The term tradition here refers to that which is “given over.” Paul speaks warmly of the gospel tradition in which he worked.”

“And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.”

“They must have recourse to the doctrine of the apostles and content themselves therewith, nothing regarding new doctrines, be they never so glorious.”

“The gospel, however, is the offer of salvation upon the conditions of the covenant of grace. in this sense, the covenant of grace is formed with all mankind.”

“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.”

“Thus life and death are set before you, will you accept this liberty or not?”

“You cannot be saved by any of your own righteousness, because your righteousness is imperfect, and therefore cannot satisfy God's justice for your sins, and therefore cannot deliver you from wrath to come.”

“The ministry of reconciliation" is the ministry that makes known the atonement of Christ.”

“It was not mere faith or trust in God, or simply piety, which was required, but faith in the promised Redeemer, or faith in the promise of redemption through the Messiah.”

“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.”

“The law is written in men's hearts; but we must trust divine authority in the gospel above all other portions of Scripture, and not to the wit of any man whatsoever.”

“They will discover the value of their souls — when it is too late to obtain mercy; and see the beauty of the Gospel — when they can derive no benefit from it.”

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

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

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

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

“Secondly, it appears hence that the articles of faith, or the doctrine of the gospel, is in excellency and authority above all men and angels.”

“When the flood was coming, Noah preached the righteousness of faith to the world, that they might escape, if they would attend unto it; but it was rejected by them.”

“Are not we ambassadors from God to men, to unfold Christ's love in particular unto them: if they believe, then to tell them, that they may be assured of salvation?”

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

“How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel ofjJeace, and bring glad tidings of good things!”

“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?”

“Error on outward points is only a skin-deep disease—error about the cross is disease at the heart.”

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