by Scott Bushey | Feb 14, 2016 | miscellaneous
Richard Sibbes (Works, Vol. 2, p. 153): Beloved . . . . let us hence take a trial of ourselves, what our condition is, whether the words that come from Christ when he speaks in his ministry to us be sweet or not. The word, to some kind of men, is like the northern...
by Scott Bushey | Feb 14, 2016 | miscellaneous
Fiducia, Ascentia and Notitia. The above items are present in all true believers. However, these components have as well, internal and external distinctions. That being, these components MUST be carried about, for the true believer, by the Holy Spirit. It is the gas...
by Scott Bushey | Feb 13, 2016 | miscellaneous
Keeping the Sabbath day holy. It is a sure mark of an ungodly person to be a Sabbath-breaker, as a conscion-ableness to celebrate it to God’s glory is both a mark and a work of godliness. It is the description of the godly eunuch, Isa. 56:4, “Thus saith the Lord to...
by Scott Bushey | Feb 12, 2016 | miscellaneous
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...
by Scott Bushey | Feb 11, 2016 | miscellaneous
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...
by Scott Bushey | Feb 10, 2016 | miscellaneous
“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...
