Excerpts from Edward Samuel:
From "The Triumph of the Holy Spirit";
"We do not expect any spiritual action from natural men. These, like madmen, call things by their wrong names, as light, darkness, and sweet, bitter. They choose a pebble before a jewel, by putting a greater value upnon the body than the soul. They prefer a tyrannical master, Satan, to a kind and merciful Benefactor from whom they have their life and being, and who supplies them with all their good. They prefer their slavery and chains to liberty. All these are the actions of madmen."
"What the sun is unto the world, to things natural, so is the preached Gospel in the power of the Holy Ghost, with respect to things spiritual. The Gospel in the hands of the Spirit is the only means to enlighten man in the nature of spiritual things."
"Man by nature is so weak a creature, that he cannot raise even one good thought to the God of Heaven. 'We are not sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God.' Without God the Eternal Spirit, we cannot rise when we are fallen, neither can we stand after we are risen. Without Him we can do nothing!"
"All the work that Christians have to do is study God's will and to obey it, and then leave the care of all events with Him. In doing so they are in His ways and shall not be interrupted till they have finished their work. God's ways are paths of safety'"
"God does good to His enemies, therefore He cannot forget His friends; if He supplies dogs, surely He will feed His children! If He provides for ravens, surely He will provide for His doves!"
"The Holy Spirit renews all the affections, and fixes them on their proper object, which is God. The Spirit opens to the renewed soul the precious thoughts of God towards it, and the exceeding riches of His grace; yea, He sheds abroad the love of God in the hearts of His people, and makes them know the things that are freely given them of God."
"God loved His people not only before they were lovely, but before they were in actual exisstence. He loved them freely too; He stand sin no need of them or their love. He loves them uninteruptedly: it would weary the arm of an angel to write down God's repeated acts of love!"
From The Triumph of Christ on the Cross:
"Those who come to Christ are a people who are "ready to perish;" The Spirit of God opens their eyes that they may see their lost and ruined state, puts a cry in their hearts, "helps their infirmities" with :"groanings which cannot be uttered," enables them to wrestle with God for mercy; their cry being, "Lord save, or I perish." These are such sinners as Jesus receives, for "the whole need not a physician, but they that are sick."
"It is the will and pleasure of God that all grace should come to us through Christ. If God will commune with us, it must be from off the Mercy-Seat, Christ Jesus. If we have any fellowship with the Father, it must be through Christ. If we have any grace from Him, who is the God of all grace, it must come to us in this way; for Christ alone is the way, the truth, and the life."
"It is by the grace of God in Christ, through Him and from Him, we are what we are; it is that which has made us to differ from others. We have nothing but what we have in a way of receiving; nothing but what we have received out of the fullness of Christ, and therefore we should not glory as though we had not received it."
"And whereas this fullness of Christ, this well of grace, is deep, and we have nothing to draw with, God provides the bucket of faith; this is freely given--it is "not of ourselves, it is the gift of God (Ephesians 2:8):" and with this we draw water with joy out of the full wells of salvation, which are in Christ Jesus."
From "The Triumph of the Holy Spirit";
"We do not expect any spiritual action from natural men. These, like madmen, call things by their wrong names, as light, darkness, and sweet, bitter. They choose a pebble before a jewel, by putting a greater value upnon the body than the soul. They prefer a tyrannical master, Satan, to a kind and merciful Benefactor from whom they have their life and being, and who supplies them with all their good. They prefer their slavery and chains to liberty. All these are the actions of madmen."
"What the sun is unto the world, to things natural, so is the preached Gospel in the power of the Holy Ghost, with respect to things spiritual. The Gospel in the hands of the Spirit is the only means to enlighten man in the nature of spiritual things."
"Man by nature is so weak a creature, that he cannot raise even one good thought to the God of Heaven. 'We are not sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God.' Without God the Eternal Spirit, we cannot rise when we are fallen, neither can we stand after we are risen. Without Him we can do nothing!"
"All the work that Christians have to do is study God's will and to obey it, and then leave the care of all events with Him. In doing so they are in His ways and shall not be interrupted till they have finished their work. God's ways are paths of safety'"
"God does good to His enemies, therefore He cannot forget His friends; if He supplies dogs, surely He will feed His children! If He provides for ravens, surely He will provide for His doves!"
"The Holy Spirit renews all the affections, and fixes them on their proper object, which is God. The Spirit opens to the renewed soul the precious thoughts of God towards it, and the exceeding riches of His grace; yea, He sheds abroad the love of God in the hearts of His people, and makes them know the things that are freely given them of God."
"God loved His people not only before they were lovely, but before they were in actual exisstence. He loved them freely too; He stand sin no need of them or their love. He loves them uninteruptedly: it would weary the arm of an angel to write down God's repeated acts of love!"
From The Triumph of Christ on the Cross:
"Those who come to Christ are a people who are "ready to perish;" The Spirit of God opens their eyes that they may see their lost and ruined state, puts a cry in their hearts, "helps their infirmities" with :"groanings which cannot be uttered," enables them to wrestle with God for mercy; their cry being, "Lord save, or I perish." These are such sinners as Jesus receives, for "the whole need not a physician, but they that are sick."
"It is the will and pleasure of God that all grace should come to us through Christ. If God will commune with us, it must be from off the Mercy-Seat, Christ Jesus. If we have any fellowship with the Father, it must be through Christ. If we have any grace from Him, who is the God of all grace, it must come to us in this way; for Christ alone is the way, the truth, and the life."
"It is by the grace of God in Christ, through Him and from Him, we are what we are; it is that which has made us to differ from others. We have nothing but what we have in a way of receiving; nothing but what we have received out of the fullness of Christ, and therefore we should not glory as though we had not received it."
"And whereas this fullness of Christ, this well of grace, is deep, and we have nothing to draw with, God provides the bucket of faith; this is freely given--it is "not of ourselves, it is the gift of God (Ephesians 2:8):" and with this we draw water with joy out of the full wells of salvation, which are in Christ Jesus."