Encouraging Gospel Gems

Here's eight encouraging Gospel gems from a preacher long ago:

1) Christ does not save us because we are holy—but that we may be holy!

2) There are three things that commend the value of Christ's sacrifice:  the dignity of His person, the greatness of His sufferings, and the merit of His obedience.

3) God's power was revealed in the creation, when God made us like Himself out of the dust of the ground. God's love was revealed in our redemption, when He made Himself like us.

4) No soul ever came to Christ without a load of sin and guilt upon his back. It is God's way to speak terror, before He speaks comfort. Were you ever brought to say: "I was a wretch—a miserable, forlorn creature outside of Christ!" Unworthiness and wretchedness felt is the first occasion to bring us to Christ. Never a poor soul who takes sanctuary at the throne of grace, but he first stands guilty there, and in danger of damnation.

5) Man's will contributes nothing to salvation—but resistance and rebellion! All the difference between the saved and the lost, arises from God's grace, Who acts according to His good pleasure.

6) If God the Father had not loved you before the world was made—then Christ would not have redeemed you. And if Christ had not redeemed you—then the Spirit would never regenerate and sanctify you.

7) Death takes all from us: honors, and riches, and strength, and life. But it cannot take God and Christ from us. They are ours, and everlastingly ours.

8) It is easy for Him Who made all things out of nothing to help His redeemed children. The Almighty Creator, ruler, and governor of the world—what can He not do?


-preacher Thomas Manton (1620-1677 A.D.) 

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