Value God and his love more than all the world, though there were millions of them. He valued you before the world, and therefore is beforehand with you in his love. He not only loved you from everlasting, (whereas your love is but of yesterday,) but in the valuation of it, he loved you before all worlds, and preferred you to all worlds: though you loved the world first, before you loved him.
Thomas Goodwin (Theologian, 1600 – 1680)
What is the cause of all God’s purposes towards us? Himself. There is no other cause.
Thomas Goodwin (Theologian, 1600 – 1680)
In Christ are treasures that will require digging to the end of the world.
Thomas Goodwin (Theologian, 1600 – 1680)
Glory in nothing, but only in this, that you are in Christ. For God chose you in him; the being you had was in him before the world was.
Thomas Goodwin (Theologian, 1600 – 1680)
Paul was so much taken with Christ, that nothing sweeter than Jesus could drop from his lips and pen.
Stephen Charnock (Clergyman, 1628 – 1680)
We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.
Stephen Charnock, (Clergyman, 1628 – 1680)
God doth not govern the world only by his will as an absolute monarch, but by his wisdom and goodness as a tender father. It is not his greatest pleasure to show his sovereign power, or his inconceivable wisdom, but his immense goodness, to which he makes the other attributes subservient.
Stephen Charnock (Clergyman, 1628 – 1680)
Assurance is the fruit that grows out of the root of faith.
Stephen Charnock (Clergyman, 1628 – 1680)
The little time that remains between this moment and our death, should quicken our diligence to inherit the endless and unchangeable eternity of God.
Stephen Charnock (Clergyman, 1628 – 1680)
Works make not the heart good, but a good heart makes the works good.
Stephen Charnock (Clergyman, 1628 – 1680)