it is not sufficient to believe, unless thou also openly confessest before unbelievers, tyrants, and all others. next to believing follows confession; and therefore, THOSE WHO DO NOT MAKE A CONFESSION OUGHT TO FEAR; as, on the contrary, those would hope who speak out what they have believed. paulus palanterius
the heart and tongue should go together. the tongue should always be the heart's interpreter and the heart should always be the tongue's suggester; what is spoken with the tongue should be first stamped upon the heart and wrought off from it. thus it should be in all our communications and exhortations, especially when we speak of exhort about the things of God, and dispense the mysteries of heaven. david spake from his heart when he spake from his faith. believing is an act of the heart, 'with the heart man bvelieveth'; so that to say, 'i believed, therefore have i spoken', is as if he had said, i would never have spoken these things, if my heart had not been clear and upright in them. carlyl (?)
Lord, help me believe to the point where i can't stop speaking of You everywhere to everyone i talk with...open my heart to talk with more..
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