(Michael Barrett).

Proverbs brings religion out in the open; it demonstrates that true biblical religion affects all spheres of life. As a primer of right conduct, it teaches that a relationship with God is the basis of life and human experience. Proverbs aims at producing lives in conformity to God’s will.

Michael Barrett in PRJ 8, 1 (2016): 5-12.

A Sabbath on earth well spent — spent as it sometimes is, and as it always ought to be — is a shadow and an earnest of the everlasting rest, which the servants of God, through the obedience and sufferings of the Lord Jesus, count upon enjoying in the presence of the angels, and in itself is one of the most successful means which the Great and Almighty Father has been pleased to employ for educating His children for the society of heaven and the avocations of the endless life.

Thomas Witherow, I Will Build My Church: Selected Writings on Church Polity, Baptism, and the Sabbath, edited by Jonathan Gibson, 251.

The Decalogue is of incalculable service to humanity, in that it points out clearly the most prominent precepts of the moral law, and expresses these precepts in divinely inspired words.

Thomas Witherow, I Will Build My Church: Selected Writings on Church Polity, Baptism, and the Sabbath, edited by Jonathan Gibson, 239.

Infant baptism, being thus the appointment of God, to attend to it is a duty — to neglect it is a sin. The believer who objects to have his children baptized, is quarreling with a divine ordinance, omitting to claim the spiritual promises and privileges of God’s covenant, practically renouncing, in the name of his children, all interest in that covenant. It is a piece of greater cruelty and folly than was perpetrated by Esau: Esau parted with his own birthright, but the man who repudiates infant baptism parts with his children’s; Esau sold his birthright for something, but this man deliberately flings away a privilege, and receives nothing in return. Thus, the Anabaptist despises his children’s birthright.

Thomas Witherow, I Will Build My Church: Selected Writings on Church Polity, Baptism, and the Sabbath, edited by Jonathan Gibson, 190.

It is admitted, readily, that a child at baptism does not understand the nature of the ordinance of which it is the subject, but that is no reason why it should not derive benefit thereby. It does not know the texture of the clothes that cover it, and yet those clothes keep it warm. It does not understand the nature of its mother’s milk, and yet that milk sustains its life. The children that were brought to Jesus that He might touch them (Mark 10:13-16) did not understand the ceremony that was gone through on that occasion, and yet we cannot but believe that Christ’s blessing did them good.

Thomas Witherow, I Will Build My Church: Selected Writings on Church Polity, Baptism, and the Sabbath, edited by Jonathan Gibson, 180.

Light makes darkness disappear. A plain statement of the truth is the best way to scatter clouds of error.

Thomas Witherow, I Will Build My Church: Selected Writings on Church Polity, Baptism, and the Sabbath, edited by Jonathan Gibson, 158.

Error sprouts rankly in human bosoms without any help of ours; but truth needs some kind hand to plant and water it, and keep it in the sunshine.

Thomas Witherow, I Will Build My Church: Selected Writings on Church Polity, Baptism, and the Sabbath, edited by Jonathan Gibson,149.

The popular mind, so acute in the business of everyday life, is but a dull learner in the things of God, and at every step needs help and guidance, in order that it may reach right views on spiritual matters.

Thomas Witherow, I Will Build My Church: Selected Writings on Church Polity, Baptism, and the Sabbath, edited by Jonathan Gibson, 143.

But if, on the other hand, our distinctive principles are very important as well as true, then duty to God and the church demands that we avow, illustrate, and defend them, and press them on the notice of the world.

Thomas Witherow, I Will Build My Church: Selected Writings on Church Polity, Baptism, and the Sabbath, edited by Jonathan Gibson, 140.

All Presbyterian churches rank among their most cherished, as well as distinctive principles, that Christ alone is King and Head of His church.

Thomas Witherow, I Will Build My Church: Selected Writings on Church Polity, Baptism, and the Sabbath, edited by Jonathan Gibson, 135.