"For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified" (1 Cor 2:2).
For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
“What love, what mercy, what blood, what grace have I despised and trampled on! Is this the return I make to the Father for his love, to the Son for his blood, to the Holy Ghost for his grace?”
“What shall I say to the Lord? Love, mercy, grace, goodness, peace, joy, consolation,—I have despised them all, and esteemed them as a thing of nought.”
John Owen. Mortification of Sin in Believers.
It is the character of all men in the state of depraved nature and apostasy from God, that “every imagination…
However much our spirits might shrink beneath the cross, naturally adverse to its bitterness, they will expand in equal measure…
The essence of faith consists in a due ascription of glory to God, Rom. iv. 20. This we cannot attain…
Sometimes it may be that He is withdrawn from us, so as that we cannot hear his voice, nor behold…