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I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word.
Obedience to the word in humility of mind never confuses.
The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church.
I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too ... Hold fast to Christ.
As we go forward in attempting to control bump drafting in those areas, there's going to be some very subjective calls being made. That's the reason we'd like to get this under way as quickly as possible ... Hopefully we don't have to make a call. But if we do make a call in the twins, it wouldn't be quite as painful as having to make it in the Daytona 500.
Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it.
Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I.
To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles.
Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth.
I know that those who esteem these little organised associations to be the churches of God, see nothing but mere meetings of men in every other gathering of God's children.
It is the desire of our hearts, and as we believe God's will under this dispensation, that all the children of God should be gathered together as such, and, consequently, as not of the world.
During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.
By one Spirit we are all baptised into one body.
Let those who like society better have it.
The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.
God's ways are behind the scenes, but He moves all the scenes which He is behind.
If real churches exist, such persons are not called on to make them.
This truth of the gathering together of God's children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities, and in each central locality the Christians resident therein composed but one body: Scripture is perfectly clear on that head.
Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.
I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.
God is sufficient in all ages for His church.
After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely.
Separation from evil is the necessary first principle of communion with Him ... Separation from evil is His principle of unity
Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.
The presence of the Holy Spirit is the keystone of all our hopes.
Some respected and beloved brethren insist that the forming and organising of churches is, according to God's will, the only means of finding blessing in the midst of that confusion which is acknowledged to exist.
This re-appearance of the doctrine of freewill serves to support that of the pretension of the natural man to be not irremediably fallen, for this is what such doctrine tends to. All who have never been deeply convicted of sin, all persons in whom this conviction is based on gross external sins, believe more or less in freewill
The cross is the centre of all this in every respect.