. . . the Word of God is relevant to every situation in which we are placed, and in one way or another bears upon every detail and circumstance of life. This is just saying, in different words, that we are never in a situation in which we are non-moral or which is for us non-moral. The demands of God’s law are all-pervasive, and the revelation that God has given to us of his will in the Scriptures applies to us in every situation (John Murray, Collected Writings, Vol. 1, 188-189).

“Connivance in a magistrate supports vice, and by not punishing offenders he adopts other men’s faults and makes them his own” (Thomas Watson, The Christian Solider, Or Heaven Taken By Storm, 13).

“That preaching is to be preferred, which makes the truest discovery of men’s sins, and shews them their hearts” (Thomas Watson, The Christian Soldier, Or Heaven Taken By Storm, 11).