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Ch. 13 - God Rewards His People By Honouring Them
From The Great Gain of Godliness, by Thomas Watson

“A sinner is the most contemptible thing in nature; there is no worth in him while he lives and no loss of him when he dies.” -p.129

“The saints are precious, for they are God’s lesser heaven.” -p.130

“The wicked think the godly are not worthy to live in the world and God thinks the work is not worthy of them.” -p.132

“God’s people should be known by the sparkling of their graces.  Shall there be no difference on behaviour between the wicked and the godly, between a clod of earth and a diamond?” -p.133

“Discord among Christians brings a reproach upon religion, advances Satan’s kingdom, and hinders the growth of grace.” -p.136

“Sin so mixes with and dwells within a Christian that he cannot write a copy of holiness with blotting it.  Grace, though it abates, yet it does not abolish corruption.” -p.137

Ch. 13 - God Rewards His People By Sparing Them

“All God’s children resemble him, though some are more like him than others.” -p.141

“The compassions of a parent are steel and marble compared with God’s, ‘the tender mercy of our God’.” -p.142

“God’s eye upon the wicked is an eye of revenge, but his eye upon his children is an eye of benediction.” -p.144

“No prince goes so well guarded as God’s child, for he has a guard of angels about him.” -p.144

“Three things may cause boldness in prayer; the saints have a Father to pray to, the Spirit to help them to pray, and Jesus Christ as their Advocate to present their prayers.” -p.145

“a son cannot enjoy the inheritance till his father is dead; but every adopted child of God may at once enjoy both the inheritance and the father, because God is both father and inheritance.” -p.145

“The best obedience is what is voluntary, as that is the best honey which drops from the comb.  God sometimes accepts of willingness without the work, but never of the work without the willingness.” -p.147

“As the needle points the way that the magnet draws, so a gracious heart inclines to those things which the word suggests.” -p.147

“It is the note of a hypocrite to be discriminating in obedience; some sin he will indulge, some duty he will dispense with; his obedience is lame on one foot.” -p.147

“It is natural for children to imitate their parents; what the father does, the child is apt to learn the same.” -p.148

“He spares us, and shall not we be sparing to others.” -p.148

“I know not a greater rock of support for a fainting Christian than this; God will abate the severity of the law; though we come short in our duty, he will not fail of his mercy, but will spare us as a father spares his son.” -p.149