Remember (Thomas Wilcox)

Remember your sin—Christ's pardon 

your deservings—Christ's merits 

your weakness—Christ's strength 

your pride—Christ's humility 

your infirmities—Christ's restorings 

your guilts—Christ's blood 

your failings—Christ's raisings up 

your vileness—Christ's righteousness. —Thomas Wilcox

"Let sin break your heart, but not your hope in the gospel." -Thomas Wilcox.

When you see sin, look at Christ's grace that did pardon it; and when you are proud, look at Christ's grace, that shall humble and strike you down in the dust. --Thomas Wilcox

The Supreme Art

"It's the supreme art of the devil that he can make the law out of gospel." Martin Luther

Proper Worship

I am not unaware how difficult it is to persuade the world that God rejects and even abominates everything relating to His worship that is devised by human reason. ~ John Calvin

Question for Non-Cals by CCP

Question for non-Cals: God knows if He takes one action ‘A’ the person will choose ‘X’. However, God knows if He takes another action ‘B’ the person will instead choose ‘Y’. How did God NOT “choose your choice” by choosing which action to take?

Faith is a Gift

Calvin on faith being a gift from God “Faith itself is a work of the Holy Spirit, who dwells in none but the children of God. So then, in various respects, faith is a part of our regeneration, and an entrance into the kingdom of God, that he may reckon us among his children. The illumination of our minds by the Holy Spirit belongs to our renewal, and thus faith flows from regeneration as from its source; but since it is by the same faith that we receive Christ, who sanctifies us by his Spirit, on that account it is said to be the beginning of our adoption.” -- John Calvin

ENJOY GOD'S GENEROSITY

Let’s get rid of the inhuman philosophy which only allows necessities. Not only does it wrongly deprive us of legitimate enjoyment of God’s generosity, but it cannot be effected without depriving man of all his senses, reducing him to a block. --John Calvin. We should therefore learn that the only good we have is what the Lord has given us gratuitously; that the only good we do is what He does in us; that it is not that we do nothing ourselves, but that we act only when we have been acted upon, in other words under the direction and influence of the Holy Spirit. Calvin’s New Testament Commentaries, The First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians, Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1960, p. 317-318, www.eerdmans.com.

One Hundredth Part

 You are worse than you think you are, but also far more loved than you feel you are.

--Timothy Keller.

No one knows the one-hundredth part of the sin that clings to his soul.

--John Calvin

Spiritual Discovery

One man may give another an affecting view of divine things with but common assistance: but God alone can give a spiritual discovery of them. --Jonathan Edwards

SOLE SOUL MEDIATOR

 The doctrine of making angels and saints mediators and intercessors is condemned because it associates Christ with others in that significant role. Yet, when you join 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 and 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦 with Christ's obedience, you do the same.

—Puritan Anthony Burgess