“Faith, without trouble or fighting, is a suspicious faith; for true faith is a fighting, wrestling faith”
“Faith, without trouble or fighting,
is a suspicious faith;
for true faith is a fighting,
wrestling faith”
Ralph Erskine
“O sirs, we will have dead preaching. dead hearing, dead communicating, lifeless work this day if the purchased Spirit does not come!”
“What is a man, a minister, a sacrament, a city, a nation, without the Spirit of God? What makes matters so far wrong in a land, but that there is so little of the Spirit with ministers and people? There is no life where the quickening Spirit comes not: O sirs, we will have dead preaching. dead hearing, dead communicating, lifeless work this day if the purchased Spirit does not come! When He comes life comes with Him”
– Ralph Erskine
“The hypocrite’s joy destroys his sorrow; his faith and false confidence destroys and excludes his repentance; his fear destroys his love; and his pretended love to God destroys his fear of him”
– Ralph Erskine
Wisdom of the Ages 