Ralph Erskine

“ Fear not him that can at most but kill the body; The very hairs of our head are all numbred:' you may be perfectly easy. Nothing is more uneasy than the sun in the meridian regions; so are afflictions and persecutions to the saints, and the temptations they are attacked with from earth and hell: but 'God is faithful,' says the apostle, 'who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but will with the temptation also make away to escape, that you may be able to bear it,' 1 Cor. ”

“ We are diseased, he is a physician; we are lost, he is a Saviour; we are debtors, he is a surety; we are dead, he is life; we are blind, he is eye-salve; we are naked, he is clothing; we are troubled, he is rest ”

“ Are your lusts and idols, and perishing vanities of a world, a better bargain? Nay, you dare not say it for your life. This very offer of Christ, accept or reject it as you will, is worth ten thousand worlds. ”

“ They are happy in their company; for, 'he that sits on the throne shall dwell among them.' This points out friendship, fellowship, and familiarity between God and the redeemed; which also Christ allows to the militant saints in part, when, upon opening the door of their heart, he comes in and sups with them, and they with him, Rev. ”