"Salvation is of the LORD." -Jonah 2:9

Ascribe to God, ye sons of men, Ascribe with one accord, All praise and honor, might and strength To Him the living Lord! Give glory to His holy name, And honor Him alone; Give worship to His majesty, And bow before His throne. The Lord doth sit upon the floods, Their fury to restrain; He reigns above, both Lord and King, And evermore shall reign. The Lord shall give His people strength, And bid their sorrows cease; The Lord shall bless His chosen race With everlasting peace. -Gospel report by preacher Thomas Sternhold, 1562 A.D.

1. To exalt the grace of God. 2. To proclaim salvation alone through the blood and righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. 3. To declare the sinfulness, helplessness, and hopelessness of man in a state of nature. 4. To describe, as far as I am able, the living experience of the saints of God in their trials, temptations, and sorrows--and in their consolations and blessings. -preacher J. C. Philpot   

"God, W ho is rich in mercy." -E PHESIANS 2:4 [KJV]   Mercy well suits a sensible sinner; and the riches of God's mercy especially suit those who are brought down in real extremity of soul to see and feel how abundant He must be in mercy, how overflowing in the exceeding riches of His grace, that they may venture to entertain a hope of an interest in it, as freely coming down to them in their low and lost estate. We know mercy, feelingly and experimentally, before we know love. Love is first in God, but it is not first in our experience of it; nor do we go to God when made first to feel our need of mercy, as if we were objects of His love, or could venture to  entertain the remotest idea that a God so holy could love a sinner so vile; but we go to Him to obtain mercy, as the Apostle speaks: "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need" [HEBREWS 4:16 ] . Mercy is the fi...