Salvation
"It is a new and a holy heart and life, and not a new creed, or a new church or sect, that is necessary to your salvation. It will never save you to be in the soundest church on earth, if you be unsound in it yourselves, and are but the dust in the temple that must be swept out."
- Richard Baxter, A Christian Directory, Chapter 1, pg 32
"Promoting God's glory in the conversion of others is a signal evidence of our salvation. As the rainbow is not a cause why God will not drown the world, but is a sign that he will not drown it... so our building up others in the faith is not a cause why we are saved, but it is a symbol of our piety and a presage of our felicity."
- Thomas Watson, The Godly Man's Picture, pg 188
"Christ has finished salvation's work, altogether finished it. Hold not up your rags in competition with His fair white linen: Christ has borne the curse; bring not your pitiful penances, and your tears all full of filth to mingle with the precious fountain flowing with His blood. Lay down what is your own, and come and take what is Christ's. Put away now everything that you have thought of being or doing, by way of winning acceptance with God; humble yourselves, and take Jesus Christ to be the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end of your salvation."
- Charles Spurgeon, from the sermon "Christ Made A Curse For Us"
