Top notch idea!
Thanks for your labor on this brother.
My pleasure. It has been a pain to see though, that when looking for quotes, that so many people want to seek to "copyright" them, when, technically "quotes" themselves, especially from works as old as the Puritans cannot be copyrighted. Whole works can, like reprinting a specific work in its entirety verbatim, but the quotes within cannot be. But it isnt too much of a pain because Puritan Search makes looking them up fairly easy. I put together a "Doc Fetch" of about 175 of the better known Puritans, that way my search results will be limited to those 2,250 works or so. But even so, now that the initial set-up is done, it is going to take me a bit of free time to fill up the 720 frames. O'well, I just dont want anybody getting their feathers ruffled, so I will go the long route and not push the quote copyright issue. But its a trip.
The quotes I have thus far are:
“True love is not mercenary: You need not hire a Mother to love her child: A soul deeply in love with God needs not be hired by rewards; he cannot but love him for that oriency of beauty that sparkles forth in him.”
—Thomas Watson, A Divine Cordial.
“Oh! 'tis dangerous, to love to be wise above what is written; to be curious, and unsober in your desire of knowledge, and to trust to your own capacities and abilities, to undertake to pry into all secrets, and to be puffed up with a carnal mind; souls that are thus a soaring up, above the bounds and limits of humility, usually fall into the very worst of errors, as experience doth daily evidence.”
—Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices.
“Time, the First Born of the Creation is his by all the Right imaginable. But Lent to us, committed in Trust to us, to be laid out in his Service to his Honor, and we cannot be too Diligent in it; if we consider, that Time is precious, short, passing, uncertain, irrevocable when gone, and that for which we must be accountable.”
—Francis Fuller, Of the Shortness of Time.
“Every ability and opportunity is a talent with which we are entrusted, and for which we must be accountable.”
—Edmund Calamy, The Noble Mans Pattern.
“Every man’s vote is for salvation from suffering, but they do not desire to be saved from sinning.”
—Joseph Alleine, A Sure Guide to Heaven.
“Come, let the proud man boast in his honor, and the mighty man is his valor, and the rich man in his wealth, but let the Christian pronounce himself happy, only happy, truly happy, fully happy in beholding Christ, enjoying Christ, having Christ, in looking unto Jesus.”
—Isaac Ambrose, Looking unto Jesus.
“Let God therefore have all the glory of our establishing, and depend on him by prayer for the same. As all comes of his mere grace, so let all return to his mere glory; Not to us Lord, not to us, but to thy Name be given the praise; it is the song of the Church militant on Earth, and it is the song of the Church triumphant in Heaven; that all glory is to God in the whole carriage of our salvation.”
—Richard Sibbes, Yea and Amen.
“If we be destitute of other lodging, and be driven to the common earth, yet we have a house over our heads, not made with hands, but an eternal mansion in the heavens. There is also a canopy for us, a roof arched over with the two Poles, and set with innumerable glistering stars. Yea; there is an omnipotent love that protects us; a material heaven encompassing us, and a spiritual heaven within us, the peace of a good conscience, assuring us, of our eternal salvation through Christ Jesus.”
—Thomas Adams, Gods Anger and Mans Comfort.
“Some Christians, they shine like so many Suns in the firmament, their graces do so shine and sparkle, that if you look upon them, they will even dazzle your eyes, and make you blind, that you cannot see those small scantlings and sparks of grace that are in your own hearts. In case therefore you would get assurance, avoid the casting of your eye too much upon those that have a precedency in grace before you.”
—Christopher Love, Effectual Calling and Election.
“Thou must labor to see, and believe thine own share in Christ's death, and satisfaction, that thou mayest be able to say as Paul from sound experience, Christ loved me, and gave himself for me. This persuasion once upon sound evidence obtained; whatsoever Devil, or conscience can suggest for discomfort, is easily removed; and till that assurance in some measure be gotten, never look for solid peace in thy conscience.”
—William Sclater, The Sick Souls Salve.
“Corrections are not tokens of God's wrath, but of his love, when they are laid upon his children. The upright have many judgments inflicted on them for proof of their uprightness, (as Job) and therefore for their good, and for their glory, yea also for the glory of God.”
—William Gouge, The Whole Armor of God.
