Adams Quotes 06

The following quotations were found here. "Some have a true zeal of a false religion, and some a false zeal of a true religion." Thomas Adams in Heaven made sure "It is one thing for thee to possess sin, another thing for sin to possess thee." Thomas Adams in The Black Saint or The Apostate "Will you trust your five senses above the four Gospels?" Thomas Adams in The Victory of Patience "Nothing but eternity can make either joy or sorrow absolute." Thomas Adams in The Victory of Patience "His goodness without His greatness might fail us; His greatness without His goodness would terrify us." Thomas Adams in The Sacrifice of Thankfulness These are from The Westminster Collection of Christian Quotations (Martin H Manser) The Law - The law, though it have no power to condemn us, hath power to command us. Marriage - As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.

Mercy - He that demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.

Satan - If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend thee both spurs and a horse. Trinity - It is rashness to search, godliness to believe, safeness to preach, and eternal blessedness to know the Trinity.

Also note Heresy - Heresy is - Humano sensu electa, Scripturae sacrae contraria, palam docta, pertinaciter, defensa, - begot of a man’s brain, contrary to the Holy Scriptures, openly taught, and peremptorily defended.

Humility - In Spiritual graces let us study to be great, and not to know it. Satan - Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands; but Satan his millions. Sin, death - Sin is the strength of death and the death of strength.