Winston Churchill's Ever Patient Wife Told Him ...

Winston Churchill’s ever patient wife told him that him that loosing the election immediately after the war might be a blessing in disguise.

His response was ’at the moment its certainly very well disguised’

But a few months later saw it differently ’I feel a great sense of relief...others having to face the hideous problems of the aftermath..it may all indeed be ’a blessing in disguise’’

Attitudes to the Law

• The puritans describe the law as ’the needle that draws the gospel thread’ Samuel Bolton

• Wycliffe- The highest service to which a man may attain on earth is to preach the law of God

• Wesley ’I suggest preaching nine tenths law and one tenth grace’

• Finney ’Failure to use the law is almost certain to result in false hope, the introduction of a false standard of Christian experience and to fill the church with false converts.’

• Bunyan ’The man who does not know the nature of the law cannot know the nature of sin’

Attitudes to the Law

• Luther ’The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare Gods law and to show the nature of sin’

• Spurgeon ’They will never accept grace till they tremble before a just and holy law’

• Piper ’The quickest way to the heart is through a wound’