“Whoever is afraid to see sin’s utmost vileness, and to confess the desperate wickedness of his own heart, suspects the merits of Christ.”
- Thomas Wilcox, “Honey Out of the Rock“
Promises not Providences
“Judge not Christ’s love by providences, but by promises (Psa 73; Heb 11:1; Eccl 9).”
- Thomas Wilcox, “Honey Out of the Rock“
Make only Christ’s Righteousness Triumphant
“Whatever comes in, when you go to God for acceptance, besides Christ, call it Antichrist; bid it be gone; make only Christ’s righteousness triumphant.”
- Thomas Wilcox, “Honey Out of the Rock“
The cure that kills
“Healing from duty, and not from Christ, is the most desperate disease.”
- Thomas Wilcox, “Honey Out of the Rock“
The Gospel contrary to nature
“Self-righteousness and self-sufficiency are the darlings of nature, which she preserves as her life. That makes Christ seem ugly to nature. Nature cannot desire Him. He is just opposite to all nature’s glorious interests. Let nature but make a gospel, and it would make it quite contrary to Christ; it would be to the just, the innocent, the holy, etc. Christ makes the gospel for you, that is, for needy sinners, the needy, the ungodly, the unrighteous, the accursed.”
- Thomas Wilcox, “Honey Out of the Rock“
“See the Son and you see all”
“If you will see sin’s sinfulness to loathe it, and mourn, do not stand looking upon sin, but look upon Christ first, as suffering and satisfying for it. If you would see your graces, your sanctification, do not stand gazing upon them; but look at Christ’s righteousness in the first place; see the Son and you see all. Look at your graces in the second place.”
- Thomas Wilcox, “Honey Out of the Rock“
The Standing Pillar of the Father’s Love
“When the clouds are blackest, even then look towards Christ the standing pillar of the Father’s love and grace, set up in heaven for all sinners to gaze upon continually.”
- Thomas Wilcox, “Honey Out of the Rock“
