"Six Vital Certainties"
https://www.gracegems.org/08/01/marching.html
Life is short and uncertain.
Death is sure.
Judgment is inevitable.
Sin is exceedingly sinful.
Hell is a dreadful reality.
Christ alone can save you.
"Foundation Truths"
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/ryle/upper_room.vi.html
"Vital Principles of Christianity"
1. The extreme sinfulness of sin, and my own personal sinfulness, hopelessness and spiritual need.
2. The entire suitableness of our Lord Jesus Christ by His sacrifice, substitution and intercession, to be the Saviour of the sinner’s soul.
3. The overwhelming value of the soul, as compared to anything else.
4. The absolute necessity of anybody who would be saved being born again, or converted by the Holy Ghost.
5. The indispensable necessity of holiness in life being the only evidence of a true Christian.
6. The absolute need for coming out from the world and being separate from the vain customs, recreations and standard of what’s right, as well as from its sins.
7. The supremacy of the Bible as the only rule of what is true in faith, or right in practice, and the need of regularly reading and studying it.
8. The absolute necessity of daily private prayer and communion with God, if anyone intends to lead the life of a true Christian.
9. The unspeakable excellence and beauty of the doctrine of the Second Advent of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Ryle on what is Evangelical faith?
Knots Untied
http://www.preachershelp.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ryle-knots-untied.pdf
Old Paths
https://www.preachtheword.com/bookstore/old-paths-ryle.pdf
Where is forgiveness (of sin) to be found? Simply trust in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour. It is to rest your soul, with all its sins, unreservedly on Christ, to cease completely from any dependence on your own works or doings, either in whole or in part, and to rest on no other work but Christ’s work, no other righteousness but Christ’s righteousness, no other merit but Christ’s merit, as your ground of hope.
The Lord Jesus Christ, in great love and compassion, has made a full and complete satisfaction for sin, by suffering death in our place upon the cross. There He offered Himself as a sacrifice for us, and allowed the wrath of God, which we deserved, to fall on His own head. For our sins, as our Substitute, He gave Himself, suffered, and died, the just for the unjust, the innocent for the guilty, that He might deliver us from the curse of a broken law, and provide a complete pardon for all who are willing to receive it.
Simple faith, is the only thing required, in order that you and I may be forgiven. That we will come by faith to Jesus as sinners with our sins, trust in Him, rest on Him, lean on Him, confide in Him, commit our souls to Him, and forsaking all other hope, cleave only to Him, this is all and everything that God asks for. Let a man only do this, and he shall be saved. His iniquities shall be found completely pardoned, and his transgressions entirely taken away.
Come then, willing to receive, and not thinking how much you can bring. Come, willing to take what Christ offers, and not fancying you can give anything in return. Come with your sins, and no other qualification but a hearty desire for pardon, and, as sure as the Bible is true, you shall be saved.
Practical Religion “Self-Inquiry” p. 11
https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/sdg/ryle/Practical%20Religion%20-Ryle.pdf
Forgiveness of sins has been purchased for us by the eternal Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ. He has purchased it for us by coming into the world to be our Savior, and by living, dying, and rising again, as our Substitute, in our behalf. He has bought it for us at the price of His own most precious blood, by suffering in our place on the cross, and making satisfaction for our sins. But this forgiveness…is a thing which each individual must receive for himself by his own personal faith, lay hold on by faith, appropriate by faith, and make his own by faith…
“All Kinds of Strange Teachings”
https://www.the-highway.com/articleFeb17.html
Of that glorious Gospel, grace is the main feature, grace in the original scheme, grace in the execution, grace in the application to man’s soul. Grace is the fountain of life from which our salvation flows. Grace is the agency through which our spiritual life is kept up.
Are we justified? It is by grace. (Romans 8:33, Titus 3:7)
Are we called? It is by grace. (2 Timothy 1:9)
Have we forgiveness? It is through the riches of grace. (Ephesians 1:7)
Have we good hope? It is through grace. (Titus 3:7)
Do we believe? It is through grace. (Ephesians 2:8)
Are we elect? It is by the election of grace. (2 Peter 1:1, Colossians 3:12)
Are we saved? It is by grace. (Ephesians 2:5)
The Upper Room, Being a Few Truths for the Times
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/r/ryle/upper_room/cache/upper_room.pdf
Chapter V Jeremiah 6:16 “The Good Way”
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/ryle/upper_room.vii.html
The victories of Christianity, wherever they have been won, have been won by distinct doctrinal theology; by telling men of Christ's vicarious death and sacrifice; by showing them Christ's substitution on the cross, and His precious blood; by teaching them justification by faith, and bidding them believe on a crucified Saviour; by preaching ruin by sin, redemption by Christ, regeneration by the Spirit; by telling men to…believe, repent, and be converted. These are the “old paths.”
Chapter IX Acts 17:16-17. “Athens”
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/ryle/upper_room.xi.html
What are we to understand St. Paul preached?
(a) St. Paul at Athens preached the person of the Lord Jesus, - His divinity, His incarnation, His mission into the world to save sinners, His life, and death, and ascension up to heaven, His character, His teaching, His amazing love to the souls of men.
(b) St. Paul at Athens preached the work of the Lord Jesus, - His sacrifice upon the cross, His vicarious satisfaction for sin, His substitution as the just for the unjust, the full redemption He has procured for all, and specially effected for all who believe, the complete victory He has obtained for lost man over sin, death, and hell.
(c) St. Paul at Athens preached the offices of the Lord Jesus, has the one Mediator between God and all mankind, as the great Physician for all sin-sick souls, as the Rest-giver and Peace-maker for all heavy-laden hearts, as the Friend of the friendless, the High Priest and Advocate of all who commit their souls into His hands, the Ransom-payer of captives, the Light and Guide of all wandering from God.
(d) St. Paul at Athens preached the terms which the Lord Jesus had commanded His servants to proclaim to all the world;--His readiness and willingness to receive at once the chief of sinners; His ability to save to the uttermost all who come unto God by Him; the full, present, and immediate forgiveness which He offers to all who believe; the complete cleansing in His blood from all manner of sin; faith, or simple trust of heart, the one thing required of all who feel their sins and desire to be saved; entire justification without works, or doing, or deeds of law for all who believe.
(e) Last, but not least, St. Paul preached at Athens the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. He preached it as the miraculous fact on which Jesus Himself staked the whole credibility of His mission, and as a fact proved by such abounding evidence that no (denier of) miracles has ever yet honestly dared to (refute) - He preached it as a fact, which was the very top-stone of the whole work of redemption, proving that what Christ undertook He fully accomplished, that the ransom was accepted, the atonement completed, and the prison doors thrown open for ever.
Need we be ashamed of the weapons of our warfare? Is the gospel, the old Evangelical creed, unequal to the wants of our day? I assert boldly that we have no cause to be ashamed of the gospel at all. It is not worn out. It is not feeble. It is not behind the times. We want nothing new, nothing added to the gospel, nothing taken away. We want nothing but “the old paths,” the old truths fully, boldly, affectionately proclaimed. Only preach the gospel fully, the same gospel which St. Paul preached, and it is still “the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth,” and nothing else called religion has any real power at all. (Romans 1:16)
Chapter X Acts 26:24-29 “Portraits” (Festus, Agrippa & Paul)
(a) St. Paul was altogether convinced of the truth of the facts of Christianity. That the Lord Jesus Christ was actually “God manifest in the flesh,” (1 Timothy 3:16) - that He had proved His divinity by doing miracles which could not be denied, - that He had, finally, risen from the grave and ascended up into heaven, and was sitting at God's right hand as man's Saviour, - on all these points he had thoroughly made up his mind, and had not the slightest doubt of their credibility. On behalf of them he was willing to die.
(b) St. Paul was altogether convinced of the truth of the doctrines of Christianity. That we are all guilty sinners, and in danger of eternal ruin, that the grand object of Christ coming into the world was to make atonement for our sins, and to purchase redemption by suffering in our stead on the cross, - that all who repent and believe on Christ crucified are completely forgiven all sins, - and that there is no other way to peace with God and heaven after death, but faith in Christ, - all this he most steadfastly believed. To teach these doctrines was his one object from his conversion till his martyrdom.
(c) St. Paul was altogether convinced that he himself had been changed by the power of the Holy Spirit, and taught to live a new life, - that a holy life, devoted and consecrated to Christ, was the wisest, happiest life a man could live, that the favour of God was a thousand times better than the favour of man, - and that nothing was too much to do for Him who had loved him and given Himself for him. He ran his race ever “looking unto Jesus,” and spending and being spent for Him (Hebrews 12:2; 2 Corinthians 5:15, 12:15).
(d) Last, but not least, St. Paul was altogether convinced of the reality of a world to come. The praise or favour of man, the rewards or punishments of this present world, were all as dross to him. He had before his eyes continually an inheritance incorruptible, and a crown of glory that would never fade away (Philippians 3:8; 2 Timothy 4:8). Of that crown he knew that nothing could deprive him...“neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:38-39)