Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

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BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
it may not be that countenance. And the moment you introduce
the element of uncertainty in regard to any substantial religious
conviction, your doubt has taken away that enthusiasm which
only goes out toward certainty.— H. W . Beecher.
263. A man's nose is a prominent feature in his face, but
it is possible to make it so large that eyes and mouth and everything
else are thrown into insignificance, and the drawing is a
caricature and not a portrait. So, certain important doctrines
of the gospel can be so proclaimed in excess as to throw the
rest of truth into the shade, and the preaching is no longer the
gospel in its natural beauty, but a caricature of the truth : of
which caricature, however, let me say, some people seem to
be mightily fond.
C. H. Spurgeon.
264. I can conceive a living man without an arm or a leg,
but not without a head or a heart ; so there are some truths
essential to vital religion, and which all awakened souls are
taught. Newton.
265. The carpenter's gimlet makes but a small hole, but it
enables him to drive a great nail. May we not here see a
representation of those minor departures from the truth which
prepare the minds of men for grievous errors, and of those
thoughts of sin which open a way for the worst of crimes?
Beware, then, of Satan's gimlet.
C. H. Spurgeon.
266. As he is a traitor to his prince who taketh upon him
to coin moneys out of a base metal, yea, although in the stamp
he putteth for a show the image of the prince ; so he that shall
broach any doctrine that cometh not from God, whatsoever he
say for it, or what gloss soever he set on it, he is a traitor
unto God yea, in truth, a cursed traitor, though he were an
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angel from heaven (Gal. 1:8).
T. Boston.
267. The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful, but
whether it is true. When we want to go to a place, we don't
ask whether the road leads through a pretty country, but whether
it is the right road, the road pointed out by authority, the turnpike
road.
Hare.
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