42 Quotes by John Fox

...meditation or consideration is a further inquisition into the truth. Set consideration at work and, not like brutes, suffer your eyes, ears, lusts, and senses to be your guides. But commune with your hearts, consider your ways, reflect on your actions, look to your end--which, if you did, you would not be so sensual, so sinful as you have been and are (Isa. 1:4).

The increase of your grace and holiness depends on your acquaintance and communion with the God of grace.

Live continually in an expectation of your great charge. Buy, sell, converse, read, pray, hear, and do all as dying men and passing to receive the recompense of endless joy or woe. Christians, if you would work while it is day; if you would glorify God on earth; if you would not be prey to the prince of darkness; if you would stand with comfort before the Lord Jesus at His dreadful bar; if you would not spend your days without hope--arise, therefore, and be doing, and the Lord be with you.

You sadly besotted souls, know and remember while you have a day before the golden thread of life is cut that, if you are found without Christ, faith, repentance, holiness but a moment after death, you are undone to eternity. After death, all means and hopes fail. There is no work nor device in the grace (Eccl. 9:10). God will then be irreconcilable; sin, unpardonable; heaven, not attainable; and your souls, lost irrevocably.

Cloth will keep color best that is dyed in the wool, and the vessel will scent longest of that liquor with which it is first seasoned. Oh, then, remember your Creator in the days of your youth.

Sirs, up and be doing. Press toward the mark. Add to your faith, virtue; to virtue, knowledge; to knowledge, temperance; to temperance, patience; to patience, godliness, that you be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Be you therefore steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of our Lord. And if you do these things, you will never fall (1 Cor. 15:58; 2 Peter 1:5-8, 10).

Let every lust be mortified, every duty performed, every grace exercised.

If there be the truth of grace, there will be an endeavor after the strength of grace.

Oh what a nothing is our life!--namely, a span, a dream, a wind, a shadow, a vapour, a post, swifter than a post (Job 7:6).