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Christ came to ‘save’ sinners for Himself.
a friend responded to this Facebook post by asking: "Please explain what this means": "Christ came to 'save' sinners for Himself." It's a bit complicated, but I will try and make it palatable: Theologically speaking, before God created the world, the Godhead, i.e. the...
Thomas Brooks on Temptation in the Saint
Temptation is God’s school, wherein he gives his people the clearest and sweetest discoveries of his love; a school wherein God teaches his people to be more frequent and fervent in duty. When Paul was buffeted, then he prayed thrice, i. e. frequently and fervently; a...
Thomas Brooks on Relapsing sins
Precious remedies Against satan's devices Remedy (4). The fourth remedy against this device of Satan is, to consider, That there are relapses into enormities, and there are relapses into infirmities. Now it is not usual with God to leave his people frequently to...
Luther on substituting of wine in the supper
"When somebody inquired whether, when a sick person wished to have the sacrament but could not tolerate wine on account of nausea, something else should be given in place of the wine, the doctor [Martin Luther] replied, 'This question has often been put to me and I...
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