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While the flames licked their bodies, Latimer famously said to his colleague, “Be of good comfort, Mr. Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light a candle by God’s grace, in England, as I trust never shall be put out.”

For the Gospel compels us to insist in the churches upon the doctrine of grace, and of the righteousness of faith; which, however, cannot be understood, if men think that they merit grace by observances of their own choice.

Luther and the other Reformers cast their vote for unity, but not for unity at all costs.

As the church father Ambrose of Milan once wrote in his exposition of the gospel of Luke, "It is fitting that it be recorded that the first Adam was cast out of Paradise in the desert, that you may observe how the second Adam returned from the desert to Paradise." Ambrose presses the point: "Adam brought death through the tree. Christ brought life through the tree."

You keep saying, "I have come to my ethical position”… I keep saying, “Yes, quite. But why did you do so?”

Now, Reader,
I have told my dream to thee;
See if you can interpret it to me,
…
Take heed also, that thou be not extreme,
In playing with the outside of my dream:
Nor let my figure or similitude
Put thee into laughter or a feud.
Leave this for boys and fools; but as for thee,
Do thou the substance of my matter see.

The stubborn root of anxiety is a fundamental distrust in God's sovereignty, love, and goodness to us—We must sever the root of unbelief at its deepest point by applying the gospel, which is "the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes" (Rom. 1:16).

“In the bloody sacrifice of Christ, see the horrid nature of sin… We should look upon sin with indignation, and pursue it with an holy malice… The sight of Christ's bleeding body should incense us against sin; let us not parley with it, let not that be our joy, which made Christ a man of sorrow.”

Oriental scenes look best in steel engravings. I cannot be imposed upon any more by that picture of the Queen of Sheba visiting Solomon. I shall say to myself, You look fine, madam, but your feet are not clean, and you smell like a camel.