365 Quotations from Welsh Christians

Q. Though He was a person of such heavenly rank, was He not very humble? A, Yes ; He was meek and lowly of heart, and hath taught us to be so. Q. When He was ill-used and reviled what did He do? A. When He was reviled. He reviled not again; when He suffered, He threatened not; but committed Himself to Him that judgeth righteously. Q. When any wanted Him to do what was wrong, how did He act? A. He obeyed God rather than men, and told them their faidts in a becoming manner. Edward Williams 1750-1813

The holy angels, who are absolutely dependent on the thrice holy Jehovah, owe the continuance of holy acts to a sovereign communication of antecedent holy influence to secure a holy disposition. A suspension of such influence would leave them in the state of their proper passive power; and this towards a moral agent is to deal with liira in mere equity. The exercise of equity terminated on Adam ; but equity did not constitute him morally bad - it only left him to his passive power ; liberty, however, acting on this latter, produced moral evil. Edward Williams 1750-1813

We should not be surprised my brethren if men who claim a religious character and men of reputed eminence in other respects oppose this doctrine (penal subsittutionary atonement). Thus it was of old. We preach Christ crucified to the Jews who claim a religious character, a stumbling block and to the Greeks, who boast of science and wisdom as if engrossed by themselves, foolishness, but unto them who believe that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. The death of Christ as a sacrifice, however undervalued by many on earth, is in heaven a matter of the greatest moment and of the highest triumph. Edward Williams 1750-1813

The Lord takes a great deal of delight to train and bring up his child to be more in love with him. God will so train and bring him up, that if he throw him into the worst condition that can be for body or soul, and shall say, 'What thinkest thou of me now? Hast thou any hard thoughts of me?' saith God. 'No,' saith the soul, 'all is love.' Walter Cradoock 1606-1659

I heard of old that Jesus, Who still remains the same, To publicans gave welcome, And sinners deep in shame. Oh God! receive me with them, Me also welcome in, And pardon my transgression, Forgetting all my sin. Thomas William(s) Glamorganshire 1761-1844 (Original in Welsh)

The best way to fight against sin is to fight it on our knees. Philip Henry 1630-1696

Every knowledge in comparison of that of Christ, is but loss and dung; to know him is everlasting life. John Elias 1774-1841

There are many who complain that they can scarcely remember anything they hear. Have done with your lying. I'll be bound to say you remember well what you sold your old white horse for at Llandaff fair three years ago. Six or seven pounds was it? Certainly that has not escaped your memory. You can remember anything but the Gospel! Thomas Jenkin (Siencyn Penhydd) 1746-1807  

... in our Prayers and Meditations (we must) conceive aright of his Divine Majesty and not according to those gross and blasphemous Imaginations which naturally arise in Men's Brains, as when they conceive God to be like an old man sitting in a chair and the blessed to be like that Tripartite Idol which Papists have painted in their Church windows Lewis Bayly 1575-1631