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Originally Posted by Backwoods Presbyterian  Thomas Goodwin is one of the Puritans I know very little about. Thanks for this Daniel. | "Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayers and worn with thanks."
"After thou hast prayed, observe what God doth towards thee; especially how He doth guide thy feet and heart after prayer; there is much in that. That which was the spirit of supplication in a man when he prayed, rests upon him as the spirit of obedience in his course." Quote: |
"Grace" is more than mercy and love, it superadds to them. It denotes, not simply love, but the love of a sovereign, transcendly superior, one that may do what he will, that may wholly choose whether he will love or no. There may be love between equals, and an inferior may love a superior; but love in a superior, and so superior as he may do what he will, in such a one love is called grace: and therefore grace is attributed to princes; they are said to be gracious to their subject, whereas subjects cannot be gracious to princes. Now God, who is an infinite Sovereign, who might have chosenwhether ever He would love us or no, for Him to love us, this is grace.
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__________________ Sterling Harmon
Coventry, CT
PCA
Deacon
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"Whatever is laudable in our works proceeds from the grace of God."
--  John Calvin, Institutes III:xv.3.
"Our Lord God must be a good man, to be fond of worthless fellows. I cannot like them, and yet I, myself, am one."
--  Martin Luther, Table Talk |