Bunyan: the true source of authenticity

Thursday, November 4, 2021
Meditation:
    When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this subject.”
    At that, Paul left the Council. A few men became followers of Paul and believed. Among them was Dionysius, a member of the Areopagus, also a woman named Damaris, and a number of others.
    —Acts 17:32-33 (NIV)
Quotation:
    [Mr. Gifford] made it much his business to deliver the people of God from all those false and unsound rests that, by nature, we are prone to take and make to our souls. He pressed us to take special heed that we took not up any truth upon trust—as from this, or that, or any other man or men—but to cry mightily to God that He would convince us of the reality thereof, and set us down therein, by his own Spirit in the holy Word.
    ... John Bunyan (1628-1688), Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners [1666] The Whole Works of John Bunyan, v. I, London: Blackie, 1862, p. 20 (see the book)
    See also Mark 9:24; Acts 17:32-34; Rom. 14:5; 2 Tim. 3:16
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You show Your people all truth. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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