I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.

Assurance of hope is more than life, it is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty.

I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.

I declare I know no state of soul more dangerous than to imagine we are born again and sanctified by the Holy Ghost, because we have picked up a few religious feelings.

Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren.

I am one of those old-fashioned ministers who believe the whole Bible and everything that it contains.

We have no reason to be discouraged and cast down if the religion we profess is not popular and few agree with us. We must remember the words of our Lord Jesus Christ in this passage: ‘The gate is narrow’. Repentance, and faith in Christ, and holiness of life, have never been fashionable. The true flock of Christ has always been small. It must not move us to find that we are reckoned singular, and peculiar, and bigoted, and narrow minded. This is the ‘narrow way’. Surely it is better to enter into eternal life with a few, than to go to ‘destruction’ with a great company