Contemplations on the Sufferings, Death and Resurrection of Christ. Quotes

“Recreations are needful at times; but take care of these two things, that your recreations be innocent in themselves, and that you be moderate in your use of them”
― Augustus Toplady, Contemplations on the Sufferings, Death and Resurrection of Christ.

“Now, should a man attempt to go to court, clothed in filthy rags, and endeavor to gain admission to the royal presence in such raiment as that, would not he be refused entrance, and driven with indignation from the palace gate?--certainly he would; and can we expect to stand in the hour of death and day of judgment, undaunted before the holy Lord God, arrayed in no better robe, and defended with no better armour than that imperfect righteousness of ours, which the Scripture calls filthy rags?”
― Augustus Toplady, Contemplations on the Sufferings, Death and Resurrection of Christ.

“Some are dismissed from life in the dawn of infancy; some in the morning of childhood; others in the noon of youth. The sands of some are continued longer; and a very few are permitted to see the night of what we generally term old age. Not a day, nor an hour; no, not a minute passes, wherein multitudes of all ages are not called away to stand before the holy Lord God. Death, that promiscuous reaper, pays no regard to years or station. The infant of a day, and the man of a century are alike to him; he mows the shooting blade and the mature stem: the growing and the grown unite to swell his harvest and augment his spoils. But is that which we term Death, the offspring of chance, or the result of accident? Surely, no. Death is a scythe! but if I may so speak, it is a scythe in the hand of God. Affliction, sickness, and dissolution, are messengers of His; which come not but at His command.”
― Augustus Toplady, Contemplations on the Sufferings, Death and Resurrection of Christ.

“To be possessed of no more than momentary existence, and to have even that momentary existence filled up with more evil than good; to move, for a point of time, like bubbles on the surface of the world, and then to vanish, or be thrown into a mere blank, and swallowed up in the gulf of non-existence for ever; would not, cannot be consistent with the nature of that God who makes nothing in vain, and whose name is love.”
― Augustus Toplady, Contemplations on the Sufferings, Death and Resurrection of Christ.