“Satan with ease puts fallacies upon us by his golden baits, and then he leads us and leaves us in a fool’s paradise.”

“To present the bait and hide the hook; to present the golden cup, and hide the poison; to present the sweet, the pleasure, and the profit that may flow in upon the soul by yielding to sin, and by hiding from the soul the wrath and the misery that will certainly follow the committing of [...]

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“If you would have God’s law sweet, let not ‘wickedness be sweet in your mouth,’ Job 20.12. When sin is your burden, Christ will be your delight.”

“For the attaining this blessed delight in the law of God, three things are requisite. Direction 1. Set an high estimate upon the word; what the judgment prizeth, the affections embrace; he that values gold, will delight in it; we are apt, through a principle of Atheism, to entertain slight thoughts of religion, therefore our [...]

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“…the mall is the Kingdom of Me and My Choices. The Church is the Kingdom of Christ and his grace.”

“The mall has a food court, a cinema, and all the right shops. Why can’t the church be like that? What’s wrong with it? The main thing wrong with it is that the mall is the Kingdom of Me and My Choices. The Church is the Kingdom of Christ and his grace. They’re two different [...]

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“A Christian comes to contentment, not so much by way of addition, as by way of subtraction…rather by subtracting from his desires, so as to make his desires and his circumstances even and equal.”

“A Christian comes to contentment, not so much by way of addition, as by way of subtraction. That is his way of contentment, and it is a way that the world has no skill in. I open it thus: not so much by adding to what he would have, or to what he has, not [...]

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November 26 – “A man who has learned the art of contentment is the most contented with any low condition that he has in the world, and yet he cannot be satisfied with the enjoyment of all the world.”

“It may be said of one who is contented in a Christian way that he is the most contented man in the world, and yet the most unsatisfied man in the world; these two together must needs be mysterious. I say, a contented man, just as he is the most contented, so he is the [...]

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October 8 – “The strength of our affections is to be measured by the firmness and fixedness of the root, not by the violence of their actings.”

“Case 4. “But when I compare my love to God with my love to some created enjoyments, I find the pulse of my affections beat stronger to the creature than to the Creator. How then can I call him Father? Nay, alas! those turnings of heart within me, and glowings of affection to him, which [...]

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