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Take Jesus for your king, and by baptism swear allegiance to him; take him for your prophet, and hear him; take him for your priest, to make atonement for you.

Tears are a tribute to our deceased friends. When the body is sown, it must be watered. But we must not sorrow as those that have no hope; for we have a good hope through grace both concerning them and concerning ourselves.

The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.

The beauty of holiness is that which the grave, that consumes all other beauty, cannot touch, or do any damage to.

The better day, the worse deed.

The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.

The first lesson in Christ's school is self-denial.

The flower of youth never appears more beautiful than when it bends toward the sun of righteousness.

The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself; sometimes in the dark, but never at a distance.

The grace that saves them is the free undeserved goodness and favor of God.

The joy of the Lord will arm us against the assaults of our spiritual enemies, and, put our mouths out of taste for those pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks.

The kingdom of heaven was never intended to indulge the ease of triflers, but to the rest of them that labor.

The meek are those who quietly submit themselves to God, to His Word and to His rod, who follow His directions, and comply with His designs, and are gentle toward all men.

The more reverence we have for the Word of God, the more joy we shall find in it.

The prayers and supplications that Christ offered up were, joined with strong cries and tears, herein setting us example not only to pray, but to be fervent and importunate in prayer. How many dry prayers, how few wet ones, do we offer up to God!

The provisions of Christ's gospel appear mean and scanty to the world, yet they satisfy all that feed on him in their hearts by faith with thanksgiving.

There are remains of great and good men, which, like this mantle, ought to be gathered up and preserved by the survivors, their sayings, their writings, their examples, that, as their works follow them in the reward of them, they may stay behind in the benefit of them.

There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.

There is one death bed repentance recorded in the Bible (the thief on the cross), so that no one despair, but there is ONLY one, so that no one will presume.

The riches we impart are the only wealth we shall always retain.

The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning.

The streams of religion run deep or shallow, according as the banks of the Sabbath are kept up or neglected.

The true Christian hero will appear in the cause of Christ, not only when it is prevailing, but when it seems to be declining; (he) will be on the right side, though it be not the rising side.

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts.

They that die by famine die by inches.

Those, and those only, can expect to be taught by God, who are ready and willing to do as they are taught... Those who go up to the house of the Lord with an expectation that He will teach them His ways, must go with a humble resolution that they will walk in His paths.

Those may justly be reckoned void of understanding that do not bless and praise God; nor do men ever rightly use their reason till they begin to be religious, nor live as men till they live to the glory of God. As reason is the substratum or subject of religion (so that creatures which have no reason are not capable of religion), so religion is the crown and glory of reason, and we have our reason in vain, and shall one day wish we had never had it, if we do not glorify God with it.

Those that forget to attend God with their praises may perhaps be compelled to attend him with their prayers.

Those who have a heart to do good, never need complain for want of opportunity.

Those whom God will employ are first struck with a sense of their unworthiness to be employed.

Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other.

Those who will not deliver themselves into the hand of God's mercy cannot be delivered out of the hand of His justice.

Though He had so much work to do with others, yet He [Jesus] chose sometimes to be alone, to set us an example.

Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.

Though we may now think some sins light and little, if the Lord awaken the conscience, we shall feel even the smallest sin heavy upon our souls.

To a good man, God gives not only wisdom and knowledge, but joy.

To fish in troubled waters.

To wait on God is to live a life of desire toward Him, delight in Him, dependence on Him, and devotedness to Him.

We best oppose error by promoting a solid knowledge of the word of truth, and the greatest kindness we can do to children, is to make them early to know the Bible.

We have a cunning adversary, who watches to do mischief, and will promote errors, even by the words of scripture.

We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God's all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might.

We must believe that He is able to do what He will, wise to do what is best, and good, according to His promise, to do what is best for us, if we love Him, and serve Him.

We must never promise ourselves any more than God has promised us.

We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season.

Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.

Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people.

We should take heed of pride; it is a sin that turned angels into devils.

What God requires of us he himself works in us, or it is not done. He that commands faith, holiness, and love, creates them by the power of his grace going along with his word, that he may have all the praise.

What harrowing is after sowing, the same is meditation after hearing--it hides the word.