Author-Augustus Toplady

The heart of man

Posted by on January 29, 2018 at 3:18 am

The heart of man, says God by the prophet, is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked: who can know it? — In me, said the apostle, that is, in my flesh, abstracted from supernatural grace, dwelleth no good thing.–And, says a greater than both, From within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil […]

JUSTIFIED IN CHRIST

Posted by on May 7, 2016 at 8:04 am

We should be in a bad condition indeed, if our salvation was suspended on conditions of our own performing. God’s everlasting love, His decree of election, and the eternal covenant of redemption, are the three hinges on which the door of man’s salvation turns. When man fell from God, infinite justice put a lock upon […]

The Conditions for Salvation

Posted by on December 27, 2015 at 12:11 pm

The Conditions for Salvation Remember, that the conditions of fallen man’s salvation are two — and no more — namely, perfect atonement for sin, and perfect obedience to the law. Both of these conditions Christ has completely fulfilled, in the stead, and for the infallible salvation of every soul that comes to His blood for […]

Every religion except one puts you upon doing something in order to recommend yourself to God…

Posted by on July 15, 2011 at 6:54 am

Every religion except one puts you upon doing something in order to recommend yourself to God… It is the business of all false religion to patch up a righteousness in which the sinner is to stand before God. But it is the business of the glorious gospel to bring near to us, by the hand […]

False Religion

Posted by on July 15, 2011 at 12:10 am

“Every religion except one puts you upon doing something in order to recommend yourself to God… It is the business of all false religion to patch up a righteousness in which the sinner is to stand before God. But it is the business of the glorious gospel to bring near to us, by the hand […]

A man`s free will..

Posted by on July 15, 2011 at 12:01 am

A man’s free will cannot cure him even of a toothache or a sore finger, and yet he madly thinks it is in his power to cure his soul of sin. Actually, the greatest judgment which God Himself can in this present life inflict upon a man is to leave that man in the hand […]