clawrence9008
Puritan Board Freshman
“If you would keep your comforts, put them all into the hand of Christ to be kept for you. A child that knows not how to keep his money, if he get a penny from any friend, he brings it to his father or mother, and says, Mother, pray keep this penny for me. You have experience that you cannot keep your own comforts; you will lose and spend them quickly. As Jesus Christ is the Lord Treasurer of all our graces, so he is the Lord Keeper of all our comforts; and therefore, when God is pleased to give any comfort to you, go to Jesus Christ, and say, Lord, keep my comforts for me, keep my evidences for me, keep my assurance for me: you must not only depend upon Christ for graces, but for comforts; and as well for the keeping as for the getting of them.”
- William Bridge, A Lifting Up for the Downcast, p. 53
I have been so edified by Bridge so far! He and Richard Sibbes are incredible at identifying the spiritual malady of the soul, and applying the balm of the gospel to it exactly how it needs to be applied.
- William Bridge, A Lifting Up for the Downcast, p. 53
I have been so edified by Bridge so far! He and Richard Sibbes are incredible at identifying the spiritual malady of the soul, and applying the balm of the gospel to it exactly how it needs to be applied.
