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

“My heart,” says David, “shews me the wickedness of the ungodly.”  As face answers to face in a glass, so the heart of man to man.  When a believer considers the vileness of his own heart by nature, he does not wonder so much that others fall, as that he himself is kept from falling.  -Mr. Madan

" Save yourselves from this untoward generation." -Acts 2:40 [KJV] Some, from a warm zeal for free-will, and a strong opposition to salvation by grace, have been weak enough to cite this passage to prove, that we have a hand in our own salvation; because we are here called upon to save ourselves. They might with equal propriety have inferred, that we are here exhorted to new create ourselves. But there is a sense, in which this exhortation is peculiarly applicable, to every saved sinner, every justified believer in Christ.  For the honour and glory of our Saviour, and for the peace and comfort of our souls, let us attend to it. Wisdom informs us, There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet not washed from their filthiness. O how filthy are their eyes! And their eyelids are lifted up (see Proverbs 30:12,13 KJV.) Now these are at enmity against, “That seed that serve the Lord, and which are counted to Him for a generation” (Psalm 22:30.) It w...