2,000 Years of Christ's Power, Part Four Quotes

“Those who are called according to God’s purpose.” Therefore, “who is He that condemns? Who shall separate us?” Rom. 11:29: “For the gifts and the calling of God cannot be revoked.” 2 Tim. 1:7–9: “God did not give us a spirit of fear… For He has called us because of His own purpose and the grace He gave us in Christ Jesus ages ago, etc.”
― Nick R. Needham, 2,000 Years of Christ's Power Vol. 4: The Age of Religious Conflict

“After this life, there is neither ability nor opportunity for repenting. In this life there prevails a season of grace, so that those who are justified here will not be punished hereafter. But those who die without being justified, are consigned to eternal punishment. This makes it clear that the fable of Purgatory should not be given room. In truth it is appointed that each one should repent in this life, and obtain pardon of his sins by our Lord Jesus Christ, if he would be saved. Let this conclude our Confession.”
― Nicholas R. Needham, 2,000 Years of Christ's Power Vol. 4: The Age of Religious Conflict

“Scougal argued that this consisted not primarily in intellectual belief or in moral practice, but in a spiritual union between the soul and God, in which God’s very life was transfused into a person.”
― Nicholas R. Needham, 2,000 Years of Christ's Power Vol. 4: The Age of Religious Conflict

“After studying at Edinburgh University, he spent a decade broadening his mind on the Continent; for example, he befriended some Jansenists in the famous Catholic seminary at Douay in the Spanish Netherlands, and discovered in them a depth of sincere Christian faith and spiritual life he had not thought possible in Roman Catholics. It seems they reminded him of the Christians of the earliest centuries. There was always to be a Jansenist leaven in Leighton’s own piety; in particular, he admired monasticism and the celibate life—he himself never married.25”
― Nicholas R. Needham, 2,000 Years of Christ's Power Vol. 4: The Age of Religious Conflict