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When we pray properly, we speak into the ear of God. Our gracious Mediator presents our petitions at once, and the great Father hears them and smiles upon them. Charles H. Spurgeon, Faith’s Checkbook: Daily Devotional - Promises for Today (1888; Updated Edition, Aneko Press, 2020), p. 237.

A universal effect, the sort which exists through creation, demands a universal cause, and this belongs to God alone. Pieter van Mastricht, Theoretical-Practical Theology. Volume 3: The Works of God and the Fall of Man, trans. Todd M. Rester, eds Joel R. Beeke and Michael T. Spangler (1682...

God has given no promise that He will not redeem. He does not offer hope that He will not fulfil. Charles H. Spurgeon, Faith’s Checkbook: Daily Devotional - Promises for Today (Updated Edition, Aneko Press, 2020), p. 1.

If a hard diamond could be softened up by the blood of a ram, should not the blood of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, which He shed out of love, soften up our naturally stony hearts? Johann Gerhard, Schola Pietatis: The Practice of Godliness – Volume 1, trans. Elmer Hohle, ed. Rachel Melvin...

Since God is perfect of Himself, who lacks in no good thing, we should above all else, love Him as the perfect Good. Johann Gerhard, Schola Pietatis: The Practice of Godliness – Volume 1, trans. Elmer Hohle, ed. Rachel Melvin (1719; 2nd edn, Malone TX: Repristination Press, 2013), 1.1, p. 39.

He [God] is eternal, who has no beginning nor shall have any ending; rather, He is from eternity to eternity. Johann Gerhard, Schola Pietatis: The Practice of Godliness – Volume 1, trans. Elmer Hohle, ed. Rachel Melvin (1719; 2nd edn, Malone TX: Repristination Press, 2013), 1.1, p. 33.

For although God does not depend upon causes and reasons from elsewhere, yet he always has his own reasons for his own counsels, he connects the means with his own ends, and he takes care to choose means analogous to his own ends. Pieter van Mastricht, Theoretical-Practical Theology. Volume 3...

When we suffer through affliction, we are better able to sympathize with those in trouble. Willem Teellinck, The Path of True Godliness, trans. Annemie Godbehere, ed. Joel R. Beeke, Classics of Reformed Spirituality (1636; Grand Rapids MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2003), p. 120.

The doctrine of Aquinas is in this point of Predestination and Reprobation far more sound then the doctrine of the Remonstrants … John Davenant, Animadversions upon a Treatise intitled God’s love to mankind (Cambridge: Roger Daniel, 1641), p. 180.

God Himself commands us to obey the magistrate. Therefore He also grants him the authority to pass laws which are not contrary to the moral Law or right reason but are appendices to the moral Law, congruent with virtue, adapted for the safety and preservation of the state. Johann Gerhard...