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Measure not God's love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light thereof.
Richard Sibbes
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Richard Sibbes
Age: 58 †
Born: 1577
Born: January 1
Died: 1635
Died: January 1
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Whatsoever is good for God's children they shall have it, for all is theirs to further them to heaven therefore, if poverty be good, they shall have it if disgrace be good, they shall have it if crosses be good, they shall have them if misery be good, they shall have it for all is ours, to serve for our greatest good.
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It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell.
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God knows we have nothing of ourselves, therefore in the covenant of grace he requires no more than he gives, but gives what he requires, and accepts what he gives.
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Therefore, when we find our heart inflamed with love to God, we may know that God hath shined upon our souls in the pardon of sin and proportionally to our measure of love is our assurance of pardon. Therefore we should labour for a greater measure thereof, that our hearts may be the more inflamed in the love of God.
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In all their jollity in this world, the wicked are but as a book fairly bound, which when it is opened is full of nothing but tragedies. So when the book of their consciences shall be once opened, there is nothing to be read but lamentations and woes.
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Possibilitas tua mensura tua'(What is possible to you is what you will be measured by).
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When we go to God by prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore he opposes us all he can.
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