Let this truth also cause believers more to prize the Lord Jesus Christ. Consider that it is he, and he only, who defends you from wrath, and that he is a safe-defense; your defense is a high tower; your city of refuge is impregnable. There is no rock like your rock. There is none like […]
Resurrection or Rebellion
When any thing which is pleaded to belong unto religion or the worship of God is proposed to us, our first consideration of it ought to be in that inquiry which our Lord Jesus Christ made of the Pharisees concerning the baptism of John, “Whence is it? from heaven, or of men?” John Owen
Practical Atheism
Multitudes make light of Christ and salvation, because they are wholly sensual. The concerns of another world are out of sight, and so far from their senses, that they cannot regard them; but present things are in their eyes, and in their hands. There must be a living faith to prevail over sense, before unseen […]
He Loved Us First
Churches are societies devoted to God, called out of the world, taken in out of the common to be inclosures for God: he has set them apart for himself; and because he has chosen them, they also have chosen him, and set themselves apart for him. Matthew Henry
The LORD is Good
His children may not have a liberal share in the things of this life; they may have but little meal in the barrel; they may be drawn low; and almost dry; but they shall have as much as God sees to be good for them. Thomas Watson
Doers of the Word
Infinite and eternal Majesty! Author and Fountain of being and blessedness! how little do we poor sinful creatures know of thee, or the way to serve and please thee! We talk of religion, and pretend unto it; but alas! how few are there that know and consider what it means! Henry Scougal
Examine Yourself
Let not the contentment and accommodation of your bodies draw your soul into snares, and bring them under the power of temptations to sin. John Flavel
The Simplicity of Salvation
How happy would you be if your hearts were but persuaded to close with Jesus Christ! Jonathan Edwards
But We Have the Mind of Christ
There is nothing we are more sure of than that we think, yet nothing we are more in the dark about than how we think; who can declare the generation of thought in the soul? Surely then the generation and births of the eternal mind may well be allowed to be great mysteries of godliness, […]
Unbelief Salves a Guilty Conscience
The chief cause of slighting Christ and salvation, is a secret root of unbelief. Whatsoever men may pretend, they do not really believe the Word of God. They are taught in general to say, the Gospel is true; but they never saw the evidence of its truth, so as to be firmly persuaded of it; […]