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A PERIODICAL FOR YOUNG AND OLD
SOLOMON’S ADMONITION TO THE YOUNG AND THE INFIRMITIES OF OLD AGE “Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them. “Ecclesiastes 12:1–7. ...
FAMILY-SINGING
To the reader:My design in this essay is to promote the singing of Psalms in families, as a part of their daily worship, especially their Sabbath worship; an exercise which (however it be now with other instances of the warmest devotion sadly disused, yet) was anciently practised by the ge ...
God's Provision
He waters the earth and makes it fruitful. On this instance of God's power and goodness the psalmist enlarges very much, the psalm being probably penned upon occasion either of a more than ordinarily plentiful harvest or of a seasonable rain after long drought. How much the fruitfulness of this l ...
THE SABBATH
It is a profanation of the Lord’s day, and a breach of the law of it, to neglect and omit the proper duty and business of that day, which is the immediate service and worship of our God. If we leave undone that which on this day ought to be done, we are transgressors; for omissions are sins, and ...
Mercies Received
1. That I am endued with a rational, immortal soul, capable of serving God here, and enjoying Him hereafter, and was not made as the beasts that perish.2. That having powers and faculties, the exercise of them has been no wise obstructed by frenzies, lunacy, etc., but happily continued in ...
A Weighty Question
Here a weighty question is asked. It is: By what means may the next generation be made better than this? “Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?” Cleansing implies that it is polluted. Besides the original corruption we all brought into the world with us (from which we are not cleansed un ...
Mercies Received
1. That I am endued with a rational, immortal soul, capable of serving God here and enjoying Him hereafter, and was not made as the beasts that perish.2. That having powers and faculties, the exercise of them has been no wise obstructed by frenzies, lunacy, etc., but happily continued in t ...
The End of Summer
We have here the prophet himself bewailing the calamity and ruin of his people; for there were more of the lamentations of Jeremiah than those we find in the book which bears that title.Observe here, (1) how great his griefs were. He was an eyewitness of the desolations of his country, and ...
Is There No Balm in Gilead?
We have here the prophet himself bewailing the calamity and ruin of his people, for there were more of the lamentations of Jeremiah than those we find in the book which bears that title.Observe here (1) how great his griefs were. He was an eyewitness of the desolation ...
Directions for a Well-Ordered Conversation
1. Fix a right principle of true grace in the heart. “Not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world” (2 Corinthians 1:12).2. Eye the gospel of Christ as your great rule. “Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ” (Phili ...
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