𝕮𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖇 𝕯𝖎𝖝𝖔𝖓 𝕾𝖒𝖎𝖙𝖍

Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
— Isaiah 45:22

God declares His glory that we might look toward Him and be saved.

If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
— 2 Chronicles 7:14

#NotJustForAncientIsrael

Reprobation is an act of justice, necessarily supposing sin. Election is an act of mercy, supposing nothing but misery.
― Francis Turretin, Institutes 1.4.10

The order of creation ought to serve for a law.
— John Calvin

God does not will the damnation of anyone under the conception of damnation, and He does not will death insofar as it is death, since “He wills that all men be saved.” Instead, He wills these things under the conception of justice.
— Thomas Aquinas, ST I-II, q. 19, a. 10, ad 2

Those who suspect that there is no true happiness and therefore content themselves in the enjoyment of low things are pitiable. Such people are common.
— Thomas Traherne

So they [blind heathen men] concluded that woman is a necessary evil, and that no household can be without such an evil… I imagine ​that if women were to write books they would say exactly the same thing about men.
— Martin Luther

If God did not desire that the hope of reward, and the fear of punishment should be moving causes of good works, he would not use them as arguments in the promises and threatenings…in his word.
— Zacharias Ursinus

The world is too wicked, and does not deserve to have many wise and pious princes.
— Martin Luther

In Moses' judicial law there are many things proper & peculiar to the Jewish nation, & so ordained according to the state of the place, time, & persons, that if we were to apply & thrust them all upon other nations, we would show ourselves more than half mad.
— Heinrich Bullinger

The cause or blame for…unbelief, as well as for all other sins, is not at all in God, but in man. Faith in Jesus Christ, however, and salvation through him is a free gift of God.
— Canons of Dort 1.5

We grant that the reasons and causes for wind, flowers, tempests, calm weather, and drought may be discerned long before in the stars. Shall we not state that those causes are in God, who in his infinite ways comprehends more than the heavens?
—Vermigli being medieval

Those [commands] that are found in Matt 5, John 13, and elsewhere, are not new commandments of the Gospel…as if added to the precepts of the moral law and more precise than these. Rather, they are the same commandments which Moses delivered to God’s people.
— Leiden Synopsis

Book Cover: A House for the Word by Richard Hooker

First time ever having my name on a published book, even if I worked on only 4 of 26 chapters and it's only a modernization rather than fresh writing, but still feels like cool business. Hooker is great and I'm glad to have helped get this moving.

Those who bewail the current state of affairs are esteemed to be the champions of the people and men of independent thought, & under this guise whatever they say is accepted without question. Whatever their speech lacks in substance is supplied by people’s willingness to believe it.
— Richard Hooker

Reading the history of Israel, especially of the kings, it's fascinating how quick and ready God often is to grant great blessings at the first hint of partial and even self-interested repentance.

“Thou, Lord, art merciful; for thou rewardest every man according to his work.”
— Psalm 62:13

The “for” here is fascinating

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Augustine says that when the Psalmist speaks of hating God's enemies with a “perfect hatred,” this means “that he hate[s] in them that they are wicked, and love that they are men.”

O Lᴏʀᴅ, thy word
endureth for ever in heaven.
Thy truth also remaineth from one generation to another;
thou hast laid the foundation of the earth, and it abideth.
They continue this day according to thine ordinance;
for all things serve thee.
— Psalm 119:89-91

It is good for me that I have been in trouble;
that I may learn thy statutes.
— Psalm 119:71

Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
— Romans 13:10

It is extremely and incomprehensibly incoherent to read any references to “Israel” in Romans 11 as about the Church/elect in general. It's all fleshly Israel.

Every time I read this I wonder why Mark/Peter felt the need to say this. Maybe @zugzwanged can unlock the mystery for one.

I should utterly have fainted,
but that I believe verily to see the goodness of the Lᴏʀᴅ in the land of the living.
— Psalm 27:15

So the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, 
and like a giant refreshed with wine.
— Psalm 78:66

Coverdale's got a terrifying image here

Lift not up your horn on high:
speak not with a stiff neck.
For promotion cometh neither from the east,
nor from the west, nor from the south.
But God is the judge:
he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
— Psalm 75:5-7

Imagine if they had made “Where You Are” the moral heart of Moana.

Sacred doctrine makes use of [philosophical] authorities as extrinsic and probable arguments; but properly uses the canonical Scriptures as an incontrovertible proof, and the doctors of the Church as one that may properly be used, yet merely as probable.
— Thomas Aquinas