- John Bunyan, "Christ a Complete Saviour".
Published in 1692, four years after his death.
hat is from men is uncertain, and is often lost
and tumbled over and over by men; but what is from God is fixed as a nail in a sure
place. I know there are [peculiar] times of temptation, but I speak now as to the
common course of Christianity. There is nothing that so abides with us as what we
receive from God; and the reason why Christians at this day are at such a loss as
to some things is, because they are content with what come from men's mouths, without
searching and kneeling before God, to know of him the truth of things. Things that
we receive at God's hand come to us as things from the minting house, though old
in themselves, yet new to us. Old truths are always new to us if they come to us
with the smell of heaven upon them. I speak not this because I would have people
despise their ministers, but to show that there is nowadays so much idleness among
professors [those who profess Christ] as hinders them from a diligent search after
things, and makes them take up short of that that is sealed by the Spirit of testimony
to the conscience. Witness the great decays at this day among us, and that strange
revolting from truth once professed by us."
- John Bunyan, "Christ a Complete Saviour".
Published in 1692, four years after his death.
.
|
 |
|
|
