My Endless, Blissful Theme Is Ever New
"My endless, blissful theme is ever new; Jesus and His salvation will never wear out. I would never have any sit down satisfied, but still press on after fuller revelations of Jesus; for there are heights and depths in the love of Christ of which the most favored have no conception, and there are beauties and glories in e have yet beheld. Oh! I would have none rest short of the revelation of His person, though His benefits are all precious. Things of earth often repeated grow stale, but the same view of a precious Jesus a thousand times over is ever new. When Jesus shows Himself b newly slain; and is not His sacrifice, as an odor of a sweet smell, as fragrant as though but just offered without spot unto God? Oh, yes, He is ever the same and will be to all eternity. The glories, beauties, and excellencies of His person are infinite; and from these boundless sources our finite minds will be feasted for ever and ever."
Ruth Bryan
The Marvelous Riches of Savoring Christ: The Letters of Ruth Bryan
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He That Loves God Love His Bible
God's words must be laid up on your heart, that our thoughts may be daily conversant with them and employed about them, and thereby the whole soul may be brought to abide and act under the influence and impression of them. This immediately follows upon the law of loving God with all your heart; for those that do so will lay up his word in their hearts both as an evidence and effect of that love and as a means to preserve and increase it.
He that loves God loves his Bible.
-Matthew Henry
Matthew Henry's Commentary on the whole BibleDeuteronomy 6:4
Hallelujah at Judgment
"After this I heard something like the loud voice of a vast
multitude in heaven, shouting: Hallelujah! Salvation, glory,
and power belong to our God, because His judgments are
true and righteous! And again they shouted: Hallelujah!
The smoke from her goes up for ever and ever!" Rev. 19:1-3
None were so compassionate as the saints when on earth,
during the time of God's patience. But now that time is at
an end. Their compassion for the ungodly is swallowed in
joy in the Mediator's glory, and His executing just judgment,
by which His enemies are made His footstool.
Though, when on earth, the righteous man wept in secret
places for their pride, and because they would not hear; yet
"The righteous will rejoice when he sees the retribution;
he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked." Ps. 58:10
No pity shall then be shown them from their nearest relations.
The godly wife shall applaud the justice of the Judge, in the
condemnation of her ungodly husband! The godly husband
shall say Amen! to the condemnation of her who lay in his
bosom. The godly parents shall say Hallelujah! at the
passing of the sentence against their ungodly child. And the
godly child shall, from the bottom of his heart, approve the
condemnation of his wicked parents--the father who begat
him, and the mother who bore him.
"Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the
roar of rushing waters and like loud peals of thunder, shouting:
Hallelujah! For our Lord God Almighty reigns!" Revelation 19:6
Thomas Boston
Human Nature in its Fourfold State (gracegems | amazon)
