“We tremble to see Israel so soon connecting Mount Sinai and the golden calf; but how much worse is it to connect Mount Calvary and the world!”
“Those who choose disobedience and embrace sin, will be overpowered by sin and embraced with wrath. Happy only those who have confessed sin, and, self-condemned, go through Christ to God’s embrace.”
One of the devil’s snares is so to occupy us with the past and future, as to weaken us for the present.
“The present only is thine own,
Then use it well ere it be flown.”
The flesh profiteth nothing either morally, intellectually, or religiously.
It is one thing to be an advocate of Christianity, but another to be a disciple of Christ.