For thine elect there rose a mighty tide
That there our veins might through thy person bleed
To quench those flames that else would on us feed
Edward Taylor
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What Love of this is thing that cannot be
In thine infinity O Lord Confined
Unless it in thy very Person see
Infinity and and Finity conjoined?
What hath thy Godhead as not satisfied
Married our manhood making it its bride?
Edward Taylor
Islamic preachers in America:
“The greatest mission of Muslims in America is to destroy Christianity.”
“Oh Allah, kill them one by one, do not leave a single one of them alive!”
I don’t know about you, but I’ve never seen leaders of any other religion be like this!
It giveth us confidence in the power of God. He which made us out of nothing is able to keep, preserve, and supply us when all things fail, and in the midst of all dangers
Thomas Manton, Lord's Prayer
This common relation binds us to pray to him. All things which God hath made, by a secret instinct they are carried to God for their supply:
Thomas Manton, Lord's Prayer
and by the Spirit, as the efficient cause, who gives us a heart to come; and to the Father, as the ultimate object of Christian worship
Thomas Manton,
Exposition of the Lord's Prayer
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‘Through him, by one Spirit, we have access to the Father.’ We come to him through Christ, as the meritorious cause, who hath procured leave for us;
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there may a deadly wound be given unto sin, which may cause inordinate affections to wither, and yet not withstanding some sap of sin may remain, which had need still to be mortified, lest otherwise it bring forth other branches.
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A tree may have withered branches by reason of some deadly wound given unto the root, and yet there may remain some sap in the root which will in time bring forth other branches: so it is with a regenerate man,
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yet we say, mortification is not perfect; that is, it doth not so slay sin, that we have no sin at all in us, or that we cease to sin; for in the most regenerate and holiest man that lives, there is still the sap of sin in his heart:
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Now we must know, that howsoever mortification is a deadly wound given unto sin, whereby it is disabled to bear any rule or commanding power in the heart of a regenerate man,
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Christ procureth us leave to come, and the Spirit gives us a heart to come: so that by the Spirit, through Christ, we have access to God. So that now you may see what is meant by the Father—‘Our Father
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Thomas Manton, Exp. Lord’s Prayer
We come to him through Christ, as the meritorious cause, who hath procured leave for us; and by the Spirit, as the efficient cause, who gives us a heart to come; and to the Father, as the ultimate object of Christian worship.
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