Eternal life means more than mere future blessing to be enjoyed by believers; it is equally a kind of spiritual ability.
Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but He died for all God's elect, that they should believe.
We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our thoughts are consumed about the trifles of this world, which we must leave behind us, and have only occasional thoughts of things above?
As a tender and loving friend is grieved at the unkindness of his friend. . . so is it with this tender and loving Spirit, who hath chosen our hearts for a habitation to dwell in.
Sin also carries on its war by entangling the affections and drawing them into an alliance against the mind. Grace may be enthroned in the mind, but if sin controls the affections, it has seized a fort from which it will continually assault the soul. Hence, as we shall see, mortification is chiefly directed to take place upon the affections.
Fill your affections with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin.
Christ so loves his people that he sings with joy over them.
A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection; And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the solder.
If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.
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The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.