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I keep this quote of Robert Murray M’Cheyne ever before me:

“It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God.”

I am encouraged by this quote of John Flavel:

“All our excellencies are borrowed excellencies. Therefore there is no reason to be proud of any of them. What intolerable insolence and vanity would it be for a man who wears the rich and costly robe of Christ’s righteousness, in which there is not one thread of his own spinning, but all made by free grace and not by free will, to jet proudly up and down the world in it, as if he himself had made it and he were beholden to none for it? O man! Thine excellencies whatever they are, are borrowed from Christ. Well then, let the sense of your own emptiness by nature humble and oblige you the more to Christ, from whom you receive all you have.”

And Samuel Rutherford:

Put the beauty of ten thousand thousand worlds of paradises, like the Garden of Eden in one; put all trees, flowers, all smells, all colours, all tastes, all joys, all loveliness, all sweetness in one. O what a fair and excellent thing would that be? And yet it would be less to that fair and dearest well-beloved Christ than one drop of rain to the whole seas, rivers, lakes, and fountains of ten thousand earths.”

One reminder: This my personal blog. I hold orthodox Anglican beliefs, subscribing to the historical creeds which speak of our belief in God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit as well as the 39 Articles with their reminders of the great Reformation principles of “Christ Alone, Scripture Alone, Grace Alone, Faith Alone, to God’s Glory Alone.”

(You can find links to the texts of the Apostles’ Creed, the Nicene Creed and the 39 Articles at www.anglicansonline.org/basics/what_believe.html)

My blog may therefore not reflect the popular views, theological expressions or perhaps even particular published policies of the Episcopal Church in every detail.