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God Is the Highest Good
God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of Him is our proper happiness and is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here—better than fathers and ...
Avoiding Strife
As you seek the prosperity of this society, it is of vast importance that you should avoid contention. A contentious people will be a miserable people. The contentions that have been among you since I was your pastor have been one of the greatest burdens I have labored under in the cou ...
Consolation to the Godly
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) The truth taught in the text may be applied by way of consolation to the godly. You may consider that you have in Him an unchangeable Saviour, who, as He has loved you and undertaken for you from eternity, and in ...
Consolation to the Godly
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) The truth taught in the text may be applied by way of consolation to the godly. You may consider that you have in Him an unchangeable Saviour, who, as He has loved you and undertaken for you from eternity, and in ...
Het leven van een ware christen is een reis naar de hemel
Hebreeën 11:13b en 14De schrijver van de Hebreeënbrief legt in deze verzen uit hoe uitnemend de genade van het geloof is. Hij beschrijft de heerlijke vruchten van dat geloof in de heiligen van het Oude Testament. Eerst heeft hij het in het bijzonder over Abel, Henoch, Noach, Abraham en Sar ...
Divine loveliness
When a most wicked sinner is caused to see Christ's divine loveliness, he no longer speculates why God should be interested in him, to save him. Before, he could not understand how the blood of Christ could pay the penalty for sins. But now he can see the preciousness of Christ's blood, and how ...
Beauty of Christ
"But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour." Hebrews 2:9 How excellent is that inner goodness and true religion that comes from the sight of the beauty of Christ! Here you have the most wonderful experi ...
Judgement
These words are a part of the speech which Paul made in Mars' hill, a place of concourse of the judges and learned men of Athens. Athens was the principal city of that part of Greece which was formerly a common wealth by itself, and was the most noted place in the whole world for learning, philo ...
Pharaoh's Hardness of Heart
Pharaoh's behavior represents in a very lively manner the behavior of impenitent sinners when they are the subjects of reproofs and corrections for their sins—when they are under convictions of conscience and warnings and fears of future wrath with respect to parting with their sins or letting go ...
Religious Affections
The holy Scriptures everywhere place religion very much in the affections: such as fear, hope, love, hatred, desire, joy, sorrow, gratitude, compassion, and zeal.The Scriptures place much of religion in godly fear, insomuch that it is often spoken of as the characte ...
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