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We Have An Everlasting Comfort

By thepuritans January 4, 2012 Leave a comment

There may be some perishing comfort given for a little season by perishing things; but abiding consolation, which we have by the Holy Ghost, is from things everlasting:—everlasting love, eternal redemption, an everlasting inheritance. ~John Owen from Of Communion With God, volume 2 of Works, page 251

He Makes Every Gospel Truth As Wine

By thepuritans November 3, 2011 Leave a comment

We have this, then, by the Spirit :—he teaches us of the love of God in Christ; he makes every gospel truth as wine well refined to our souls, and the good things of it to be a feast of fat things;—gives us joy and gladness of heart with all that we know of God; which is the great […]

To Enjoy God Forever

By thepuritans November 2, 2011 Leave a comment

The full inheritance promised, is the fullness of the Spirit in the enjoyment of God. When that Spirit which is given us in this world shall have perfectly taken away all sin and sorrow, and shall have made us able to enjoy the glory of God in his presence, that is the full inheritance promised. So that the Spirit given […]

The Comfort That Is In The Words of Christ

By thepuritans November 1, 2011 Leave a comment

Comfort from the words and promises of Christ sometimes break in through all opposition into the saddest and darkest condition imaginable; it comes and makes men sing in a dungeon, rejoice in flames, glory in tribulation; it will into prisons, racks, through temptations, and the greatest distresses imaginable. Whence is this? the Spirit works effectually, his power is in it; he […]