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JOHN NEWTON QUOTES
ON SALVATION FROM THE POWER OF SIN:
"Not only the guilt, but the love of sin, and its dominion, are taken away, subdued by grace, and cordially renounced by the believing pardoned sinner."
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"Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are all the hell that ever you shall have."

Thomas Brooks

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WILLIAM TYNDALE QUOTE ON FAITHFULLY PREACHING THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL
"Expound the Law truly ... to condemn all flesh, and prove all men sinners ... and then as a faithful minister, set abroach the mercy of our Lord Jesus, and let the wounded consciences drink of the water of Him."
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"These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so."

Acts 17:11

"The world may look in vain for 'free will' and pretend to it, but the heart that is alive is alive to righteousness, is dead to sin, is captive to the law which is written upon it by God, and is free to serve and keep that law. So it is upon this earth and in this mortal being and so in heaven where the soul - unhindered by the mortal flesh - is made eternally free to practice righteousness according to godliness, its very life and will and desire."

Hail & Fire, 2011

"All men hope in God - the boldest hypocrites hope assuredly in God. But by a test of the heart and mind in the thoughts and intents, even the deeds thereof, for the deeds proceed thereof, is a man known. Does a man have knowledge? - well indeed, because God is a God of knowledge, and truth is knowledge. But the knowledge that saves is an obedient faith, not faith that is free of the truth, though it knows it. Is a man free? - he is then a harmless man and he will evidence this in word and deed. Is he a justifier of himself, an accuser of the innocent and an excuser of the unjust? - such a man is not free but a slave. Can a free man serve sin? - he who serves sin is overcome by sin and the slave thereof. But he who is free serves God in holiness and his neighbor in harmlessness. He it is who swears to his own hurt and yet fulfills it; he exalts not himself; avenges not himself. He makes himself of no account - walking as Jesus did, not as one who would be honored by men. He is no railer, he is not without law. He loves the children of God, for God is in them, and his love is without partiality and without hypocrisy. Only such a man - who is free - has a reason for the hope that is in him. He shows himself in Christ; he shows himself a new creature, old things are passed away and all things are new, thus the manifestation of the gift of God is in him and he has a reason for his hope."

Hail & Fire, 2009

"People consider themselves blessed when some outward good comes upon them; and indeed they are. However, the truest, the best, and the most lasting blessings are inward - and not outward. And the best outward blessings will prove to be nothing in the end, without the inward blessings of light and knowledge. 'Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.'" Rev 3:17-18

Hail & Fire, 2009

"Counterfeits are sent to tell you that you are no different than they are. The hypocrite enters into the congregation of the just believing that they are even as he is: filled with all things natural and carnal. Compare, then, your 'walk' in this world to his and place your trust in God; compare the understanding of your heart to his, and bring all thoughts into the captivity of Christ; and compare the understanding of your mind and your heart, your will and desire to all those things that Jesus Christ taught, and find grace in the knowledge of him. Do you use natural and carnal methods or do you walk in grace? Do you follow Christ and hear no other, or do you hear and love this present world? And if Christ is in you, take heart and stand fast, and let no one take your crown from you, so that, in that day you might rejoice, having overcome all. 'Lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; and make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord,' Hebrews 12:12-14."

Hail & Fire, 2008

"Some day there shall be much rest, but for now, we work. 'Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.'" John 5:17

Hail & Fire, 2008

"How does a man who cares not for godliness and truth say, 'I am born of Him,' when the very conception of a child of God is a forming of him in the image of Him, even a forming of the mind and heart after Him in godliness and fear."

Hail & Fire, 2008

"To say that those do or that we were serving God when we were reverencing images and praying to other mediators, is the same as to say that a woman may serve her husband when she commits adultery and chases after others. Let us not by such reasoning justify ourselves against the witness of God who says, 'Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot. And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also. And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the Lord. And the Lord said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah. Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not keep anger for ever. Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the Lord. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding,' Jer 3:6-15"

Hail & Fire, 2008

"May we by His grace confirm some, wake some, and call some to life. May those who love God find us and we them."

Hail & Fire, 2008

"As it is not wisdom to gather up worthless dross and call it precious because it is found mingled with true gold, so it is not wisdom to cast away true gold as worthless because some dross remains in it and is not yet refined away. So it is with the teachings of men and their creeds. To take up both dross and gold indiscriminately, out of admiration for your brother, is to stumble over every twig and stick that he himself stumbles and to tread the straight and narrow path only as much as he himself is able to."

Hail & Fire, 2009

"We know that we fear God's Word because we fear it as God's Word; we know that we believe God's Word because our hearts consent to it, our deepest delights are in it, and we struggle against the inclinations of the flesh to keep it. Having found these things truly so, in power, within ourselves, we evidence that God's Word is in us and we are servants of him whose Word it is. 'For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the Word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the Word of men, but as it is in truth, the Word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe,' 1 Thessalonians 2:13"

Hail & Fire, 2009

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SERMONS APPOINTED TO BE READ IN THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH I
QUOTE: "How necessary it is, that the Word of God, which is the only food of the soul, and that most excellent light that we must walk by, in this our most dangerous pilgrimage, should at all convenient times be preached unto the people"
1562 Preface

"To pretend to preach the truth without offending carnal men, is to pretend to be able to do what Jesus Christ could not do."

Thomas Wilson

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REFORMED AND PURITAN QUOTES (Words of Wisdom) are selected from the writings of various Protestant Reformers, Puritan Preachers, Christian authors, and martyrs. To read more quotations by an individual author and to find books, audio books and other resources, click on the links below.

ALEXANDER, J. W. (1804-1859), James Waddel Alexander, D.D. was a Presbyterian Pastor of the Duane Street Church in New York.

Quote on Diluting or Adding to God's Word, an evidence of distrust and unbelief:

�Men have thought themselves more prudent than the All-wise. The Law has been lowered lest sinners should call it hard; the way has been hedged up, lest the blind, and the halt, and the lame, should find it too easy; the church has been barricaded with walls of ceremony, and garrisoned with ranks of officials ... and the blessed Gospel, free as the air of Paradise, has been laden with conditions and restrictions, lest faith should be too simple. In every one of these, and in a thousand like ways, men show their distrust of divine revelation.� - J. W. Alexander

Distrust of the Word, a sermon by J. W. Alexander