God's children improve all advantages to advance their grand end; they…

Richard Sibbes
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God's children improve all advantages to advance their grand end; they labour to grow better by blessings and crosses, and to make sanctified use of all things.
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What unthankfulness is it to forget our consolations, and to look upon matters of grievance. To think so much upon two or three crosses as to forget an hundred blessing. ✨ Richard Sibbes (2001). Work … ▶
The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other men are slaves; that he is the only rich man, though never so poor in the wo … ▶
We are only safe when we wisely make use of all good advantages that we have access to. By going out of God's ways we go out of His government, and so lose our good frame of mind, and find ourselves … ▶
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It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell. ✨ Richard Sibbes (1995). Light from Heaven, p.15, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

God's children improve all advantages to advance their grand end; they labour to grow better by blessings and crosses, and to make sanctified use of all things.

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