If I were to go to heaven, and find that Christ was not there, I would leave immediately; for heaven without Christ would be hell to me.

Glory in nothing, but only in this, that you are in Christ. For God chose you in him; the being you had was in him before the world was.

What is the cause of all God's purposes towards us? Himself. There is no other cause.

My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out.

And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect Adam himself came in under her covenant.

It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.

We have the promise of God's being our God, and of the blessing by Christ for ourselves, as we are Abraham's seed, yet take the whole promise collectively made to him and us.