The Daily Puritan for Saturday, October 25, 2014

"The riches we impart are the only wealth we shall always retain."  Matthew Henry (1662-1714)

Recommended reading:

A Quest for Godliness: A Puritan View of the Christian Life, by J. I. Packer

The Puritans Got it Right, by Dr. Joel Beeke

Puritan Quote of the Day - Matthew Henry

"We must forbear sin, not only because God is angry at it, and therefore it is dangerous to us, but because he hates it, and therefore it ill becomes us and is a very ungrateful thing." -  Matthew Henry (1662 - 1714)

A Quest for Godliness - The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life, by J. I. Packer

Puritan Quote of the Day - Thomas Wilcox

"Believing is the most wonderful thing in the world. Put anything of your own to it, and you spoil it. Christ will not esteem it believing. When you believe and come to Christ you must leave behind your own righteousness (oh, that is hard!), all your holiness, santifications, duties, tears, humblings, etc., and bring nothing but your sins, your wants and miseries, else Christ is not fit for you, nor you for Christ."
-Thomas Wilcox? (1549 - 1608)

A Quest for Godliness - The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life, by J. I. Packer

Puritan Quote of the Day - Ralph Venning

"This night your soul may be taken from you and you may be in hell tomorrow." - Ralph Venning (1621 - 1643), The Sinfulness of Sin

A Quest for Godliness - The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life, by J. I. Packer

Puritan Quote of the Day - Ralph Venning

"It's as if the sinner should say to the Lord in the Day of Judgment, 'Have mercy on me.' 

'Have mercy upon you?' says God. 'No, I will have no mercy upon you. There was a time when you might have had mercy without judgment, but now you shall have judgment without mercy. Depart! Depart!'

If they should then beg and say, 'Lord, if we must depart, let it be from Thy throne of judgement  but not from Thee.'

'No,' says the Lord. 'Depart from me. Depart form my presence, which is joy. Depart, and go to hell!'

'Lord,' they say, 'seeing we must be gone, bless us before we go, that Thy blessing may be upon us.'

'Oh no,' says God, 'Go with a curse. Depart ye cursed.' 

'Oh Lord, if we must go from Thee, let us not go into the place of torment, but appoint a place, if not of pleasure, then of ease.'

'No, depart into fire, burning and tormenting flames.'

'Oh Lord, if into fire, let it be only for a little while. For who can dwell in everlasting burning?'

'No! Neither you nor the fire shall know an end. Be gone into everlasting fire.'

'Lord, then let it be long before we go there.'

'No, depart immediately. The sentence shall be immediately put into execution.'

'Oh Lord, let us at least have good company who will pity us, though they cannot help us.'

'No, you shall have none but the tormenting devils. Those whom you obeyed when they were your tempters shall be with you as tormentors.'

What misery sin has brought on man to bring him to hear this dreadful doom."

 - Ralph Venning (1621 - 1643), The Sinfulness of Sin

A Quest for Godliness - The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life, by J. I. Packer

Puritan Quote of the Day - Matthew Henry

"If thou," says one of our good old Puritans, "smite (a miscalled heretic, or) a schismatic, and God find a real saint bleeding, look thou to it, how thou wilt answer it." -  Matthew Henry (1662 - 1714)

A Quest for Godliness - The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life, by J. I. Packer

Puritan Quote of the Day - Richard Baxter

"In necessary thing, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity." - Richard Baxter

Recommended reading:

A Quest for Godliness - The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life, by J. I. Packer

Puritan Quote of the Day - Matthew Henry

"A wicked generation is a generation of vipers and ought to be told so." -  Matthew Henry (1662 - 1714)

A Quest for Godliness - The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life, by J. I. Packer

Puritan Quote of the Day - Ralph Venning

"Will you be damned? Can you think calmly of going to hell? Have you no pity on your poor soul?" - Ralph Venning (1621 - 1643), The Sinfulness of Sin

A Quest for Godliness - The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life, by J. I. Packer

Puritan Quote of the Day - Matthew Henry

"When the measure of any man's iniquity is full, and he has sinned to the uttermost, then comes wrath, and that to the uttermost."  Matthew Henry (1662 - 1714)

A Quest for Godliness - The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life, by J. I. Packer

Puritan Quote of the Day - Thomas Watson

"If we do not please him by believing he will not please us by saving." - Thomas Watson (1620 - 1686), commenting on Hebrews 11:6:

"But without faith it is impossible to please him, for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him."

A Quest for Godliness - The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life, by J. I. Packer

Puritan Quote of the Day - Matthew Henry

"Those that go where God sends them shall have him with them wherever they go and they need desire no more to make them easy and prosperous." - Matthew Henry (1662 - 1714)

A Quest for Godliness - The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life, by J. I. Packer

Puritan Quote of the Day - John Winthrop

"For we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. he eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His presence from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world." - John Winthrop (1587 - 1649)

A Quest for Godliness - The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life, by J. I. Packer

Puritan Quote of the Day - Matthew Henry

"Those whom God Leads he leads to his holy hill, and to his tabernacles; those therefore who pretend to be led by the Spirit, and yet turn their backs upon instituted ordinances, certainly deceive themselves."  - Matthew Henry (1662 - 1714)

Recommended reading:

A Quest for Godliness - The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life, by J. I. Packer

Puritan Quote of the Day - Ralph Venning

"It's as if sinners should say to the Lord on the Day of Judgment, 'Lord, have mercy on us.'
'Have mercy upon you?' says God. 'No, I will have no mercy upon you. There was a time when you might have had mercy without judgment, but now you shall have judgment without mercy. Depart! Depart!'
If they should then beg and say, 'Lord, if we must depart, let it be from Thy throne of judgement, but not from Thee.'
'No,' says the Lord. 'Depart from me. Depart from my presence, which is joy. Depart, and go to hell!'
'Lord,' they say, 'Seeing we must be gone, bless us before we go, so that Thy blessing may be upon us.'
'Oh no,' says God. 'Go with a curse. Depart ye cursed.'
'Oh Lord, if we must go from Thee, let it not be into the place of torment, but appoint a place, if not of pleasure, then of ease.'
'No, depart into fire, burning and tormenting flames.'
'Oh Lord, if into fire, let it only be for a little while. For who can dwell in everlasting burning?'
'No! Neither you nor the fire shall know an end. Be gone into everlasting fire.'
'Lord, then let it be long before we go there.'
No, depart immediately. The sentence shall be immediately put into execution.'
'Oh Lord, let us at least have good company who will pity us, though they cannot help us.'
'No, you shall have none but the tormenting devils. Those whom you obeyed when they were your tempters, shall be with you as tormentors.'
What misery sin has brought on man to bring him to hear this dreadful doom."
Ralph Venning, (1621 - 1673) The Sinfulness of Sin

Recommended reading:

A Quest for Godliness - The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life, by J. I. Packer

Puritan Quote of the Day - Richard Baxter

"Many a preacher is now in hell, who hath a hundred times called upon his hearers to use the utmost care and diligence to escape it." -Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor, Section 1.1)


Recommended reading:

A Quest for Godliness - The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life, by J. I. Packer

Puritan Quote of the Day - Joseph Alleine

"How unbelievingly, carelessly, and senselessly most men live on earth, as if there were no such difference in another world...No one driveth them to hell, and will they go thither of themselves? ...Did you but see yourselves, what we see by faith, (believing God) and at once behold the saints in heaven, the lost despairing souls in hell, and the senseless sensual sinners on earth, that will lay none of this to heat, surely it would make you wonder at the stupidity of mankind." - Joseph Alleine (1634 - 1668)


Recommended reading:

A Quest for Godliness - The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life, by J. I. Packer

Puritan Quote of the Day - John Trapp

"He that rides to be crowned will not think much of a rainy day." - John Trapp (1601 - 1669)


Recommended reading:

A Quest for Godliness - The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life, by J. I. Packer

Puritan Quote of the Day - Thomas Manton

"By the righteousness of faith we are acquitted from sin, and by the righteousness of works we are acquitted from hypocrisy." - Thomas Manton (1620 - 1677)


Recommended reading:

A Quest for Godliness - The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life, by J. I. Packer

Puritan Quote of the Day - John Owens

"Reader...if thou are, as many in this pretending age, a sign or title gazer, and comest into books, as Cato into the theater, to go out again - thou hast had thine entertainment. Farewell!" John Owen (1616 - 1683)

Recommended reading:

A Quest for Godliness - The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life, by J. I. Packer