(Quotes from a Bygone Age)
Samuel Rutherford:
"Alas, that so many are carried with the times! As if their conscience rolled upon oiled wheels, so that they go the way the wind bloweth them."
James Hamilton:
"The wish for a new gospel is a sufficient sign that the old one is not understood."
Richard Sibbes:
"Whatever is good for God's children, they shall have it, for all is theirs to further them to heaven. If crosses be good, they shall have them; if disgrace be good, they shall have it. All is ours to serve in our main good."
Henry Martyn:
"Men frequently admire me, and I am pleased, but I abhor the pleasure that I feel."
John Bunyan:
"The death that Christ suffered has not lost its sting."
Thomas Brooks:
“These two - grace and sin - are like two buckets in a well; when one is up the other is down. The more grace thrives in the soul; the more sin dies in it.
Thomas Adams:
"They that are written in the eternal leaves of heaven shall never be wrapped in the cloudy sheets of darkness. A man may have his name written in the chronicles, yet lost; written in durable marble yet perish; written on a monument equal to a colossus, yet be ignominious; written on the hospital gates, yet go to hell; written on his own house, yet another come to possess it. All these are but writings upon the dust, or upon the water, where the characters perish as soon as they are made. They no more prove a man happy than the fool could prove Pontius Pilate a saint because his name was written in the creed. But they that are written in heaven are sure to inherit."
Isaac Thoms:
"An old minister, Isaac Toms, was one day speaking to his daughter in his study; "I have heard of the contentment of Dryden the poet," he told her, "of sitting under the statue of Shakespeare; and here," he went on, "you see me sitting under a portrait of good Richard Baxter. Yet, my dear," he concluded, "the most desirable situation of all and for any of us, is to be under the shadow of the Almighty and under the protection of the great Redeemer."