What We Believe

“What would otherwise have been but a collection of literary fragments has by the fact of God in-breathing every part become one organic whole; living and powerful indeed, since it is the inspired Word of God.”

“It has been "DELIVERED TO" the saints, not reasoned out by them. And, delivered ONCE, in its perfect form, and hence we are not left to enlarge or improve upon it, but simply to contend earnestly for it lest its purity and truth be impaired.”

“Evidently in order that in the very introduction to our knowledge of God we may receive a hint of the truth afterwards plainly revealed that He is a Trinity in Unity — three Persons yet one God.”

“Since, therefore, we cannot discover God, it is needful that He should make Himself known to us. Revelation becomes a necessity; and the crowning point of that revelation of Himself was touched when in Christ He made Himself known as Father.”

“Our object is to show that the Scriptures present our Lord Jesus Christ as the true God who in grace beyond all comprehension became true Man for the vindication of God's glory and our redemption.”

“Again we must say that there is only one word that will adequately set forth the real character and being of the Babe of Bethlehem, and that word is GOD.”

“To God the Father belongs initiative. All purpose, counsel, direction, are His. To God the Son belongs administration — the execution of the Divine purpose whether in creation, redemption, or judgment. To God the Holy Ghost belongs the energy all-pervading.”

“The redemption work of the Lord Jesus has been done for us. The work of the Holy Spirit is being wrought in us. The former is accomplished quite outside ourselves at the Cross.”

“Man was made after God's likeness, i.e., bearing a moral resemblance to Him, possessing intelligence, reason, will, and sinless because innocent. He was also made in God's image, i.e. as His representative in this lower creation.”

“His eating of the forbidden tree was therefore an act of pure defiance of God. It was undiluted lawlessness, and that is the very essence of sin.”

“Sinful man is exposed by his guilt to wrath and condemnation, and therefore needs that which will cover him in the sight of a holy God.”

“The sacrifice of atoning virtue must not only be such as shall relieve the sinner by removing his sin, but shall also, and first, meet all the demands of God's holy nature, and of His righteous throne, and so thoroughly vindicate Him.”

“To be justified is to be cleared from every charge that could be brought against us.”

“As for those that believe, it descends upon them as a robe, so that in the presence of God they stand invested in it. And all this is done without righteousness in any way losing its own proper character, or ceasing to be what it is.”

“Nicodemus needed a birth which should be new in the very beginnings of its origin. Nothing short of that would do.”

“The Lord's words clearly put the sentence of condemnation upon him as a child of Abraham, for if that first birth had sufficed there would have been no need for a new one.”

“God's salvation is a deliverance from every peril which in the past or present or future could possibly threaten us.”

“God has always wrought in sovereign mercy to souls, and He has given of His own nature to those who believe here below. This is what is meant by being born again.”

“We were brought into it by the reception of the Spirit of God and thus belong to the Church whether we realize it or not.”

“Worship, with the Lord's supper as the great and characterising centre of it, and not preaching, is the great object of Christians assembling themselves together.”

“The first advent, together with the work of atonement which it involved, has for nineteen centuries been an accomplished fact. Then was brought to pass redemption by blood. … The Second Advent will bring to pass redemption by power.”

“Theirs was a long-distance view, and both merged indistinctly one into the other; just as there are many distant stars which to the naked eye shine as a single point of light.”

“Resurrection involves life in altogether new conditions. … In resurrection we shall be possessed of spiritual bodies characterized by incorruption and glory and power.”

“Let us begin by recognizing the very natural warp of our fallen reason in relation to this theme, and resolving to close our minds to our own thoughts as to what ought to be, and to listen to the plain declarations of what is going to be.”