The Immutability of God
It has been said by some one that "the proper study of mankind is man." I will not oppose the idea, but I believe it is equally true that the proper study...
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It has been said by some one that "the proper study of mankind is man." I will not oppose the idea, but I believe it is equally true that the proper study...
IT SEEMS, then, that Christians may forget Christ. The text implies the possibility of forgetfulness concerning him whom gratitude and affection should...
ONE WISE man may deliver a whole city; one good man may be the means of safety to a thousand others.
You will be surprised to hear me announce that I do not intend this morning to say anything about the Holy Spirit as the Comforter.
Good old Simeon called Jesus the consolation of Israel; and so he was. Before his actual appearance, his name was the Day-Star; cheering the darkness, and...
Babbling fame ever loves to talk of one man or another. Some there be whose glory it trumpets forth, and whose honor it extols above the heavens.
What contempt hath God poured upon the wisdom of this world! How hath he brought it to nought, and made it appear as nothing.
LIBERTY is the birthright of every man. He may be born a pauper; he may be a foundling; his parentage may be altogether unknown; but liberty is his...
MUSIC HATH Charms." I am sure sacred music has; for I have felt something of its charms whilst we have been singing that glorious hymn just now.
ORIGINALLY, I have no doubt, these words referred to David. He was chosen out of the people.
The sleep of the body is the gift of God. So said Homer of old, when he described it as descending from the clouds and resting on the tents of the warriors...
SEEK ye rest from your distresses ye children of woe and sorrow ? This is the place where ye may lighten your burden, and lose your cares.
THE epistles of John are perfumed with love. The word is continually occurring. while the Spirit enters into every sentence.
This is God's complaint against Ephraim. It is no mean proof of his goodness, that he stoops to rebuke his erring creatures; it is a great argument of his...
GOD has many methods of quenching persecution. He will not suffer his church to be injured by its enemies, or overwhelmed by its foes; and he is not short...
It must have been a fine sight to see the hoary-headed Jacob sitting up in his bed whilst he bestowed his parting benediction upon his twelve sons.
Every circumstance connected with the life of Christ is deeply interesting to the Christian mind.
THESE be the last words of David; so we read at the commencement of the chapter. Many have been the precious sentences which have fallen front his inspired...
This is a very solemn indictment which the Apostle Paul here prefers against the carnal mind.
BEHOLD! what a change divine grace will work in a man, and in how short a time. That same Peter, who so lately followed his master afar off, and with oaths...
IT is a singular fact, but nevertheless most certain, that the vices are the counterfeits of virtues.
While the Bible is one of the most poetical of books, though its language is unutterably sublime, yet we must remark how constantly it is true to nature.
THERE ARE SOME passages of sacred writ which have been more abundantly blessed to the conversion of souls than others.
IT WOULD be difficult to say to which the gospel owes most, to its friends or to its enemies.
THESE ARE THE words of Paul, speaking on the behalf of himself and his brethren the Apostles, and they are true concerning all those who by the Spirit are...
NO ONE HERE requires to be told that this is the name of Jesus Christ, which "shall endure for ever." Men have said of many of their works, "they shall...
THE chapter (Ezek. 34) that I read at the commencement of the service is a prophetical one; and, I take it, it has relation, not to the condition of the...
WHAT A BLESSED Master Jesus Christ was! How familiar did he allow his disciples to make themselves with him!
POWER is the special and peculiar prerogative of God, and God alone. "Twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God." God is God; and power...
NIGHT APPEARS to be a time peculiarly favorable to devotion. Its solemn stillness helps to free the mind from that perpetual din which the cares of the...
VERILY IF THE APOSTLE said this, one and all of us had need take up the prayer. If the twelve mightiest in the army of the Lord of hosts had need of such a...
THE CHRISTIAN IS ALWAYS pleased and delighted when he can see Christ in the Scriptures.
THE greatest man of Apostolic times was the apostle Paul. He was always great in everything.
WHEN travelling through the country, you have often noticed that in different spots the old rocks peep out from under the soil, as if they would let us know...
IT IS POSSIBLE for a man to read too many books. We will not despise learning, we will not undervalue erudition, such acquisitions are very desirable; and,...
There is no point upon which men make greater mistakes than upon the relation which exists between the law and the gospel.
WE HAVE BEEN talking very freely during this last week of "glorious victories," of "brilliant successes," of "sieges," and of "stormings." We little know...
This is a land where plain speaking is allowed, and where the people are willing to afford a fair hearing to any one who can tell them that which is worth...
IF there were no other text in the sacred Word except this one, I think we should all be bound to receive and acknowledge the truthfulness of the great and...
WE DO NOT BELIEVE all that Job's friends said. They spoke very often as uninspired men, for we find them saying many things that are not true; and if we...
ONE OF THE GREATEST obstacles which the Christian religion ever overcame, was the inveterate prejudice which possessed the minds of its earliest followers.
THE TRUE BELIEVER is always pleased to hear of anything which concerns the salvation of his own soul.
Moses was the inspired author of three devotional compositions. We first of all find him as Moses the poet, singing the song which is aptly joined with that...
THIS PRAYER of Christ is an ever precious portion to all true believers, from the fact that each of them has an inalienable interest in it.
GOD'S PEOPLE CAN never by any possibility be punished for their sins. God has punished them already in the person of Christ, Christ, their substitute, has...
PAUL ONCE ADVISED the Romans to strive. Three verses before our text he actually gives them an exhortation to strive, and yet he here utters a prayer that...
THIS GENERATION hath gradually, and almost imperceptibly, become to a great extent a godless generation.
FOR THE MOST part the gracious Shepherd leads his people beside the still waters, and makes them to lie down in green pastures; but at times they wander...
This is one of the great guns of the Arminians, mounted upon the top of their walls, and often discharged with terrible noise against the poor Christians...
The next verse finely declares the power of God. "He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them by their names." Perhaps there is nothing which gives...