Category: Thomas Hooker
STAY. Comfort in Ashes.
Faith: Unless these abide in the ship, you cannot be saved. The work of faith: to draw sap and virtue…
Famish the Heart, Fly to the Promise!
Those which are needed for feeble Christians, to bring them into this blessed state of rightly believing. As much as…
The Word, wiser above all.
Through your commandments, You have made me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me. Psa 119.98 Satan…
The Word, working in the heart.
A good heart is never better at ease, than when the word works most, and most bitingly. Contrarily, a wicked…
Humility and Wisdom — all that sorrow, humiliation, and repentance is for naught if it keeps a man from receiving mercy when there is need, and it is offered.
See this in Abraham. He had this promise that he would have a son in his old age; and Rom…
Despair has slain his thousands, but presumption his ten thousands.
Men may swear, and lie, and cheat, and break all commands, and yet hope to be saved. They hope grace…
The Policy of the Devil: A Hard Lesson
Just as the sinner looks upon the excellency of Christ and of grace, and upon his own insufficiency which makes…
To Feel Deadness is Life; and To Feel Hardness is Softness.
The word and means of grace do work good, if they make you more sensible of your hardness and deadness….