Private Thoughts About Jesus Christ

Christ’s forgiveness of all sins is complete at once, because less would not do us good; His holiness is dispensed by degrees, and to none wholly in this life, lest we should slight His forgiveness.

The love of God springs from the knowledge of Christ, and seems impossible to man in any other way.

The Lord’s Christ is the soul’s joy, support, and confidence, in all states and conditions; riches in poverty, comfort in trouble, ease in pain, health in sickness, life in death.

I see the glory and blessedness of Cod in giving His Son to die for such sinners as I am, and would give to the world to have a lively gratitude and burning love to Him in my heart; but can have no peace but in thinking He died for my ingratitude.

Christ’s riches, as in Himself, are unsearchable; in us they are soon told.

The salvation of man is as much the gift of God, and the work of Christ, as His life and being.

Christ never comes into the soul unattended; He brings the Holy Spirit with Him, and the Spirit His train of gifts and graces. Lay the foundation in Him, and leave it to Him to raise God’s building upon it.

Christ obeyed and suffered for me, that His obedience and sufferings might be imputed to me; and because no obedience or sufferings of mine could answer the demands of divine justice, or be effectual to my purification.

I owe Christ a heart, a will, a life.

Let him who rejects the righteousness of Christ, consider well what ground he stands upon, and what he has to trust to.

Christ is the glass in which we see God and ourselves; and if we attempt to see either ourselves or Him through any other medium, we shall fall into infinite mistakes.

Christ still manifests His Messiahship by His presence, and says to the desiring soul, as He did to the woman of Samaria, “I that speak unto thee am He.”

To comprehend the breadth and length, and depth and height of the love of Christ, we must first take the dimensions of our own sin.

I know so much of Christ as not to be afraid to look my sins in the face.

Christ is God, stooping to the senses, and speaking to the heart of man.

Christ stands between the wrath of God and the sin of man, intercepting the one, and purging the other.

Rev. Thomas Adam (1701–1784) was a godly divine and student of John Newton, who pastored a congregation in Lincolnshire for 58 years. Like John Newton, he remained within the Anglican Church all his life.

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