William Dyer

“ The four beasts are nearer the throne than the angels.
O! beloved, how are believers advanced! how high are we become, poor dust and ashes to be above angels! and this is the greatest happiness which we get, by Christ's assuming our nature for the salvation of our souls. Again, Christ's members be not only the greatest, but the happiest : our renewed condition is as good in Christ, as it was bad in Adam. Oh! sirs, we were no more cursed out of Christ, than we were blessed in Christ; Christ is as full of life, as Adam was full of death ”

“ Justice will avenge the quarrel of abused mercy; the longer God forbears, not finding amendment, the sorer he strikes when he comes to judgement.
Oh! sinners, though the patience of God be lasting, it is not everlasting; by the warning-piece of God, you are not alarmed, you shall be consumed; the longer God is fetching about hand, the heavier will be the blow when it comes ”

“ O! do not turn your backs upon the truths of God, as too many in our days have done; they have gone from one religion unto all, at last they have gone from all religions unto none: That man's beginning was in hypocrisy, whose end is in apostacy Indifferency in religion, is the next step to apostacy from religion. ”

“ O do not put your hand to the plough and look backward; be not true to the father of lies and false to the God of truth; keep close the Son of God, to the Word of God, to the Ordinances of God, to the Day of God, the Ministers of God, to the People of God and thou wilt be safe. ”

“ And truly, sirs, it is a great mystery for happiness to become a curse, Gal. iii. For him that made the angels, to become lower than the angels, Heb.ii. For the Creator to become a creature: for him that had the riches of all in him, to become poor. Oh! this is a great mystery, that he whom the heaven of heavens cannot contain, his glory should be wrapt up in the rags of flesh; that the great God should take upon him a piece of earth ”

“ If the golden-chain of duty will not hold you, the iron chain of darkness shall bind you if you abuse your liberty in one world, you will lose your liberty in another: If you have made as much conscience in your liberty, and you have had liberty for your conscience, it had been well. ”

“ Ist, To sinners, to unbelievers, to graceless persons, I have a few words to say. Oh! sirs, oh! sirs, methinks I cannot but do towards you as Christ did once towards Jerusalem, when he came near the city, he wept over it.——— Truly, sinner, your state is a weeping state ; your state is a miserable state; you ly open to all the wrath, all the vengeance, all the curses under heaven. O poor miserable sinners, cannot you pity yourselves? The Lord of heaven pity you. Did Jesus Christ come from heaven to you sinners, and will not you come out of your sin, to come to Christ? ”

“ I have read of Alexander the Great, that when he came against a city, he used to set up a candle, and if they yielded before the candle was out, they should have quarters, but if they stood out, they might expect nothing but hanging, drawing and quartering. Oh sirs, Christ sets up a candle to thee, and if thou wilt come in to-day, thou shall have mercy, or else there will be none If all the angels and saints in heaven should fall upon their knees, and say. ”

“ Secondly, There be others that de ny the Deity of Christ; and there are some seditious ones in this nation, who say, 'That Chrift is but mere man', 'and that every saint is as much God 'as Christ;' and further they say, 'That to equal Christ with God is high blasphemy.' They that will not own Christ at his first coming, Christ will not own them at his second coming, they that will not obey the truth of God revealed from heaven unto them, shall susser the wrath of God revealed from heaven against them. ”

“ Ungodly men fear no wrath, because they feel no wrath; beause the sin is unpunished, they think there is no punishment for their sins; because he goeth on to spare them, they go on to provoke him; as he adds to their lives, they add to their lusts ”

“ There are two sorts of people in the world that deny my doctrine, who deny the Deity of Jesus Christ, who say the second Person of the Trinity is not God. First, The unbelieving Jews,if Christ had come as the Jews dreamed, as a great Monarch, treading upon no- thing but crowns and sceptres, and the necks of kings, and had all the poten tates of the earth to attend his train ”

“ And therefore, for the Lord's sake consider, men are sentenced, not only for their sinfulness, But for their slothfulness; men may perish for being servants that are unprofitable, as well as for sinners that are abominable. Methinks you should take as much delight in those precepts that enjoin holiness, as in those promises that assure happi- ness; if the day of mercy leave you graceless, the day of judgement will find you speechless; tho' you may resist the judgement he lays before you, yet you can never resist the judgement that he lays upon you ”

“ Now you know, worship is proper only to God.' Worship him that made heaven and earth, and the sea,' said the angel, Rev. xiv. 7. Worship only is proper to God alone. Now, beloved, all the acts of worship that belong to God the Father, are given to the Son Jesus Christ, both angels and men are commanded to worship him, as well as we, Heb. i. 6. Let all the angels of God worthip him;' And in Phil. ii. 10. 'That at the name of Jesus every knee fhould bow, both of all things in heaven and on earth;' mark sirs, things in heaven, as well as things on the earth, must worship Christ ”

“ Oh, saints, he that came from heaven to make us righteous, will also come from heaven to make us glorious, 'look ing for the blessed hope, and glorious appearing of Jesus Christ:' not only so, but Christ is also called 'mighty God;' nay, not only mighty God, but again, 'God blessed for ever.' Christ is 'God blessed for ever.' Rom. ”

“ The Father himself calls the Son God, and therefore well may we. Un to the Son he said, 'Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever.' Thus you see the doctrine fully proved, that Jesus Christ is the true and perfect God. But beloved, because the Deity of Christ is so much questioned at this day, and this being one of the serious and chiefest points in divinity, there fore I shall give you some considera tions, or demonstrations, or arguments, to fortify you against this great error before named. First, That Jesus Christ is true and perfect God, he is for time, co-eternal; for nature, co-essential ”

“ Thirdly, if Christ be true and perfect God, then Christ's members and the greatest and happiest; if Christ is God Almighty's only Son, believers are God Almighty's only daughters. You read of God's daughters in Psal. ”