He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again and ten times more.

John Bunyan

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When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses.

Richard Sibbes, Puritan father

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By Some, I confess, they have been abused: some have presumed on them beyond the line and measure which they have recieved; some have been puffed up with them; some have used them disorderly in churches and to their hurt; some have boasted of what they have not recieved; - all which miscarriages also befell the primitive churches.  And I had rather have the order, rule spirit, and practice of those churches that were planted by the apostles, with all their troubles and disadvantages, than the carnal peace of others in their open degeneracy from all those things

John Owen

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The experience that was had in this common course and condition, tried sundry years and that amongst Godly and sober men, may well evince the vanity of that conceit of Plato's and other ancients applauded by some of later times, that the taking away of property and bringing in community into a commonwealth would make them happy and flourishing, as if they were wiser than God.  For this community was found to breed much confusion and discontent and retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort.

William Bradford

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

Oliver Cromwell

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If God make a covenant to be a God to thee and thine, then it is thy part to see to it that thy children and servants be God's people.

John Cotton, Puritan father

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The king is as much bound by his oath not to infringe the legal rights of the people, as the people are bound to yield subjection to him.  From whence it follows that as soon as the prince sets himself above the law, he loses the king in the tyrant.  He does, to all intents and purposes, unking himself.

Jonathan Mayhew, Unitarian minister

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There is perhaps no part of divinity attended with so much intricacy, and wherein orthodox divines do so much differ as stating the precise agreement and difference between the two dispensations of Moses and Christ.

Jonathan Edwards

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In a little while you will meet in heaven; he will then be dearer to you than the nearest friend you have upon earth is to you now. Anticipate that period in your thoughts; and though you may find it necessary to oppose his errors, view him personally as a kindred soul, with whom you are to be happy in Christ forever.

John Newton

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I charge you, citizens of the United States, afloat on your wide sea of politics, THERE IS ANOTHER KING, ONE JESUS: THE SAFETY OF THE STATE CAN BE SECURED ONLY IN THE WAY OF HUMBLE AND WHOLE-SOULED LOYALTY TO HIS PERSON AND OF OBEDIENCE TO HIS LAW.

Archibald Alexander Hodge, Puritan father, and President of Princeton College

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Would you have peace with God?  Away, then, to God through Jesus Christ, who has purchased peace; the Lord Jesus has shed his heart's blood for this.  He died for this; he rose again for this; he ascended into the highest heaven, and is now interceding at the right hand of God.

George Whitefield, Great Awakening preacher

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[Although resistance would provoke] great sufferings, [it was] better to suffer than sin.  Let them trust in the God of their fathers, which is better than to put confidence in princes.  And if they suffer, because they dare not comply with the wills of men against the will of God, they suffer in a good cause.

Increase Mather, Puritan father

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Then I acknowledged my unfaithfulness and pride of heart, and turned again to my God, and humbled my soul before Him, and He returned and accepted me, and so I renewed my Covenant of walking with my God.

John Winthrop, Puritan father

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Lastly, whereas you are become a body politic, using amongst yourselves civil goverrnment, let your wisdom and godliness appear not only in choosing such persons as do entirely love and will promote the common good, but also in yielding unto them all due honor and obedience in their lawful administrations; not beholding in them the ordinariness of their persons, but God's ordinance for your good...

John Robinson, Puritan father, Pastor to the Pilgrims

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This whole process of education is to be religious, and not onl religious, but Christian.  And as Christianity is the only true religion, and God, in Christ, the only true God, the only possible means of profitable education is the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Charles Hodge, president of Princenton College, Puritan father

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Sirrah, ye are God's silly vassal; there are two kings and two kingdoms in Scotland: there is king James, the head of the commonwealth; and there is Christ Jesus, the king of the Church, whose subject James the Sixth is, and of whose kingdom he is not a king, not a lord, not a head, but a member.

Andrew Melville, Puritan father

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The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near to his heart to be beloved.

Matthew Henry, Puritan father

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Just as heat is opposed to cold, and light to darkness, so grace is opposed to sin.

Thomas Brooks, Puritan father

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A government, thus settled on republican principles, required laws; without which it must have degenerated immediately into aristocracy, or absolute monarchy.  But God did not leave a people, wholly unskilled in legislation, to make laws for themselves: he took this important matter wholly into his own hands, and beside the moral laws of the two tables, which directed their conduct as individuals, gave them by Moses a complete code of judicial laws.  They were not numerous indeed, but concise and plain, and easily applicable to almost every controversy which might arise between man and man, and every criminal case which might require the judgment of the court.

Samuel Langdon, Puritan father

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That religion and politics should be separated, the one wholly divorced from the other, is a popular fallacy so assiduously cultivated by a certain interested party, and so widely disseminated, that it may be justly termed one of Lord Bacon's 'idols'... Of the many popular fallacies that are generally afloat in society, there is perhaps none that is deeper rooted or more damaging in its effects than the one just stated. How it originated, and became so deeply implanted in the popular mind, it may be rather difficult to explain. It is, however, a modern notion.

James A. Lyon, Puritan father

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Subjects that have no religion  are incapable of law...  Every State, therefore, must have a religion, or it must cease to be a government of men.  Hence no Commonwealth has ever existed without religious sanctions...man must have a religion.  Everywhere, in all ages, in all countries, in ancient as in modern times, in civilized as well as in barbarian nations, we find him a worshipper at some altar, be it venerable, degraded, or blood-stained.

James H. Thornwell, Puritan father

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When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.

Abraham Kuyper, Puritan father

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To every Christian citizen, the most conclusive argument against secularized education is contained in his own creed touching human responsibility. According to this, obligation to God covers all of every man’s being and actions. Even if the act be correct in outward form, which is done without any reference to his will, he will judge a shortcoming. ‘The plough ing of the wicked is sin.’ The intentional end to which our action is directed determines its moral complexion supremely.

Second, Our Savior has declared that there is no moral neutrality: ‘He that is not with Him is against Him, and he that gathereth not with Him scattereth abroad.’

Add now the third fact, that every man is born in a state of alienation from God; that practical enmity and atheism are the natural outgrowth of this disposition; that the only remedy for this natural disease of man’s spirit is gospel truth. The comparison of these truths will make it perfectly plain that non-Christian training is but literally an anti-Christian training” (emphasis his).

R. L. Dabney, Puritan father

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But, gentlemen, it is not enough to have seized, in this point of view, entirely physical as yet, the functions of the grea masses of the continents. They have others, still more important, which, if rightly understood, ought to be considered as the final end for which they have received their existence. to understand and appreciate them at their full value, to study them in their true point of view, we must rise to a higher position.  We must elevate ourselves to the moral world to understand the physical world; the physical world has no meaning except by and for the moral world...

Arnold Guyot, 19th century Harvard geographer

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It is laid down in the text (Jer. 18:7-10), as the rule of the divine government over the nations of the earth, to deal with them according to their moral character.  Though God is an absolute, yet he is a holy and righteous sovereign.  Such is the perfection of his nature, that he never can do anything but what is fit and right.  That the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from him.  Perfect justice is the invariable rule of his government over the nations...with regard to nations, God has always made a distinction between the righteous and the wicked, and in plucking up and destroying, or building up and planting them, has ever treatedthem according to the rule of justice laid down in the text...In a word, the history of all nations and ages, shows that public virtue makes a people great and happy, vice contemptible and miserable.  This is the constitution of God - the immutable law of his kingdom, founded in the infinite perfection of his nature, so that unless God should change, that is, cease to be God, we cannot be a happy, unless we are a virtuous people.

Samuel McClintock,Puritan father

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From a theological standpoint one might say that the distribution of powers is an institutional expression of an abiding mistrust of power, or rather of the people in power.  The call for a distribution of powers is a partly unconscious recognition of the reality of the Fall and the unreliability of fallen man.

Helmut Thielicke, Puritan father

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...the general prevalence of real Christianity, in any government, has a direct and immediate tendency to promote, and to confirm therein, political liberty.

This important truth may be established, both by attending to the nature of this religion, in an abstract view; and by adverting to fact, and the experimental testimony with which we are furnished by history.

Samuel Miller, Puritan father

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This God spake unto David, either by Samuel, or Nathan, or some other inspired prophet, or himself immediately from heaven, saying, as in the words I have read to you, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.  It is certainly some mometous truth, highly worthy of the most serious consideration of civil rulers, that is here delivered, or it would not have been ushered in with so much solemnity.

Charles Chauncy, Puritan father

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Some part of their natural liberty they do certainly give up to the government, for the benefit of society and mutual defence.

Elisha Williams, Puritan father

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...the kingly character and dominion of our Lord Jesus runs through the whole Bible.

Samuel Davies, fourth Preident of Princeton University

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When God speaks by the mouth of a prophet, it becomes the greatest men, the highest in dignity and power, to attend with the deepest humility and reverence, to hear what God the Lord has to say unto them: considering that, how high soever they are above other men, they are infinitely more beneath the most high God:...

Samuel Dunbar, Puritan father

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How are men deluded to think they do God service, when they violate his word...to fix our dependence upon any other beside the divine Being, and to pursue any method beside his directions, to obtain the necessaries and comforts of life, is whoredom; and does not the cheif sin of the mother of harlots lie in her fixing this dependence upon the kings of the earth? Rev. 18.3-13.

Isaac Backus, Early reformed Baptist minister

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No free state was ever yet enslaved and brought into bondage, where the people were incessantly vigilant and watchful;

Samuel Sherwood, Puritan father

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If you know the love of Jesus as the hart panteth for the water-brooks, so will you pant after deeper draughts of his love. If you do not desire to know him better, then you love him not, for love always cries, "Nearer, nearer."

Charles Hadden Spurgeon, reformed Baptist

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