Richard Sibbes Quotes About Affection
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No sin is so great but the satisfaction of Christ and His mercies are greater; it is beyond comparison. Fathers and mothers in tenderest affections are but beams and trains to lead us upwards to the infinite mercy of God in Christ.
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A man knows no more in religion than he loves and embraceth with the affections of his soul.
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The Christian will desire to see the beauty of God in his house, that his soul might be ravished in the excellency of the object, and that the highest powers of his soul, his understanding, will, and affections might be fully satisfied, that he might have full contentment.
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The life of a Christian should be a meditation how to unloose his affection from inferior things. He will easily die that is dead before in affection.
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If Christ has once possessed the affections, there is no dispossessing of him again. A fire in the heart overcomes all fires without.
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Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ. The soul, in time of prosperity, scatters its affections, and looses itself in the creature; but there is a uniting power in sanctified afflictions, by which a believer, (as in rain a hen collects her brood) gathers his best affections unto his Father and his God.
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