God's Sovereignty
We should expect God to deal with us, in a way incomprehensible, if we did but remember how long, sordid, and narrow are our views and plans, and how holy, glorious, and eternal are his purposes and designs. [JJTP]
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The sinner intends, but God superintends. The creature appoints, but God disappoints. Man proposes, but God disposes. [JJTP]
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God is a free agent to work by law or gospel, by smiles or frowns, by presenting hell or heaven to sinners’ souls. God thunders from mount Sinai upon some souls, and conquers them by thundering. God speaks to others in a still voice, and by that conquers them. [PRASD]
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The means that God has set apart for the effecting of any thing are included in the purpose that he has to bring that thing to pass. [TBR]
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If we are poor, or sick, or bereaved, or defamed, how delightful it is to know that it is the Lord, and not man, the Lord and not Satan, a friend and not an enemy, a most tender father and not a capricious master, who thus ordains. [JJTP]
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If God does not hold the hearts of the wicked in his hands, and entirely control them, how can the pious pray for deliverance from wicked men with any hope that they will be heard and answered? [JJTP]
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God governs by a plan, which is never altered simply because it is his plan, and therefore can never be improved. [JJTP]
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If there is one word which encompasses all the Calvinist believes about God it is this; ‘Sovereign’. Sovereign in His being, sovereign in His attributes, sovereign in His will and sovereign in all His ways.