All people that on earth do dwell, sing to the Lord with cheerful voice; Him serve with fear, His praise forth-tell, come ye before him and rejoice.
— William Kethe (From Psalm 100)
Perfection
Have we ever seen holier men than the martyred John Bradford, or Hooker, or Usher, or Baxter, or Rutherford, or M’Cheyne? Yet no one can read the writings and letters of these men without seeing that they felt themselves “debtors to mercy and grace” every day, and the very last thing they ever laid claim to was perfection!
— J. C. Ryle
God’s Perfection
God is perfectly good. All the perfection we can arrive at in this life is sincerity. We may resemble God a little, but not equal Him; He is infinitely perfect.
— Thomas Watson
The Perfection of Jesus Christ
Christ was made sin, but never a sinner. Sinner means one who is personally affected by sin; Christ’s person never was. He never had any fellowship with sin other than that of love and compassion, to bear it as our High Priest and Substitute.
— Abraham Kuiper
Jesus Christ’s Perfection
Jesus Christ is both the most absolute grace and the most perfect law; so that to believe in him is to embrace at once both law and grace.
— Alexandre Vinet