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Private Thoughts About Christian Living

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Private Thoughts About Christian Living

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I never was happy till I knew that I could not be happy in the life of this world, and consented to wait for it till Cod’s time and place. This thought will keep me from all self-pleasing in forbidden ways; reconcile me to sufferings, crosses, injuries, mortifications, and put a smile on the face of death.

Religion does not consist in a point. The soul that has entered into the true spirit of it, is never satisfied with its attainments, but continually presses on to greater heights; and, notwithstanding the greatest abundance of graces received, is still craving, thinks itself poor, and utterly unworthy of any reward. This is humility and poverty of spirit. Pride will carry a man to heaven’s gate, but nothing but humility will find admission.

“He that is not with me,” says our Savior, “is against me.” Mere indifference to good, is evil.

Sanctification is a gift; and the business of man is to desire, receive, and use it. But he can by no act, or effort of his own, produce it in himself. Grace can do everything; nature nothing.

Abstaining from evil is nothing, without an actual turning to God in Christ, and tending to Him with my will and desire, as the rest, center and life of my spirit. This change constitutes the idea of religion, is the great work we have to transact with God, and should be the basis of all our prayers.

We may know by our affection to the Sabbath, whether eternity will be forced upon us.

The first man fell by withdrawing his will from the will of God. By nature we stand in the same state of separation, and are perpetually acting his revolt over again, and can only be restored by the reduction of our wills to the order of God’s.

Nothing but a persuasion of our title to God’s favor, and consequently to a happy eternity, can make us desire and seek after it in good earnest, and order all our affairs with a view to it. It is the great design of the Christian religion, and the peculiar tendency of its distinguishing doctrines, to possess and fill our minds with this persuasion.


The truest mortifications, and the surest test of a real disposition to be mortified, are those which we receive from others, and from God. Self-mortification, or crosses of our own choosing, are often only a more refined species of pride and self-will.


Seeking after Cod for Himself, is the renewed mind, the single eye, the pure heart, the birth of the Spirit. Seeking after Him for anything but Himself, is not seeking Him sincerely.

I desire the Spirit of God above and beyond all other possessions, interests, satisfactions, or enjoyments; both as a controlling principle, discernible in its effects, and enabling me to command myself and all my powers for God; and as a distinct inward feeling or consciousness, and foretaste of the heavenly happiness. I think both are held forth in Scripture, and the one can hardly be without the other in any heart.

Rev. Thomas Adam (1701-1784) was a godly divine and student of lohn 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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Bekijk de hele uitgave van zondag 1 maart 1987

The Banner of Truth | 28 Pagina's

Private Thoughts About Christian Living

Bekijk de hele uitgave van zondag 1 maart 1987

The Banner of Truth | 28 Pagina's