Samuel Bolton Quotes

#1. We are not under its [the laws] curses, but we are under its commands. We are not under the law for judgement, but we are under the law for conduct.

Samuel Bolton

#2. We cry down the law in respect of justification, but we set it up as a rule of sanctification. The law sends us to the Gospel that we may be justified; and the Gospel sends us to the law again to inquire what is our duty as those who are justified.

Samuel Bolton

#3. That part of the judicial law which
was typical of Christ's government
has ceased, but that part which is of
common and general equity remains
still in force. It is a common maxim:
those judgments which are common
and natural are moral and perpetual.

Samuel Bolton

#4. We cannot wait until we feel the Spirit moving us ... We must obey God even when our heart is not in it- often to discover that our hearts come alive to our duty even while we do it.

Samuel Bolton

#5. The law as it is considered as a rule can be no more abolished or changed than the nature of good and evil can be abolished or changed.

Samuel Bolton