Diligence, Providence & God Unchanging ~ Hugh Binning Share

'TAKE HEED TO READING': *I wish that souls would read the Scriptures as profitable Scriptures with the intention to profit. If you do not read with such a purpose, you read not the Scriptures of God, they become as another book unto you. But what are they profitable for? For doctrine, and a divine doctrine, a doctrine of life and happiness. It is the great promise of the new covenant, “You shall be all taught of God.” The Scriptures can make a man learned and wise, learned to salvation, it is foolishness to the world, “but the world through wisdom knew not God.” Alas! What then do they know? Is there any besides God? And is there any knowledge besides the knowledge of God? ...

The doctrine of Jesus Christ written on the heart is a deep profound learning and the poor, simple, rudest people may, by the Spirit’s teaching, become wiser than their ancients and than their ministers. Oh, it is an excellent point of learning, to know how to be saved. ... If you would seek unto God and seek eyes opened to behold the mystery of the word, you would become wiser than your pastors, you would learn from the Spirit to pray better, you would find the way to heaven better than they can teach you or walk in it.*


PROVIDENCE: *Oh that you would read the Scriptures more often! and ponder them better, how there is nothing in this world, which may seem to fall out by chance to you, that you know not how it is to come to pass, and can see no cause nor reason of it; but it falls out by the holy will of our blessed Father. Be it of greater or less moment, be it a hair of your head fallen, or your head cut off. The most casual and contingent thing, though it surprised the whole world of men and angels, that they wonder from whence it did proceed, it is no surprisal to Him; for He not only knew it, but appointed it. The most certain and necessary thing, according to the course of nature, it has no certainty but from His appointment, who has established such a course in the creatures, and which He can suspend when He pleases.*


GOD DOESN'T CHANGE:*Has He not said, 'I am the Lord, and change not' ... How is it then, that you doubt of His love as often as you change? When you are in a good temper, you think He loves you; when it is not so you cannot believe but He is angry, and hates you. Is not this to speak quite contrary to the Word, that He is a God that changes - that He is not in one mind, but now in one, and then in another, as often as the inconstant wind of a soul's self pleasing humour turns about? Here is your rest and confidence, if you will be established, not within yourselves, - not upon marks and signs within you, which ebb and flow as the sea, and change as the moon, - but, upon his unchangeable nature and faithful promises.*

HUGH BINNING
(nother super wonderful Puritan Pastor,
who only resided in the flesh till age 26)

 

 

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