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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 ...
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. ...
A Response! — Our Response?
The Lord charged them with a high contempt of His authority as their Lawgiver and His grace and favor as their Benefactor. He had done much for them, and designed to do more; but all in vain. “My people turned a deaf ear to all I said.”Two things He complains of: (1) Their disobedience to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Zie je mij?
Zie je mij? Hoor je mij? Denk je aan mij?Over deze en nog meer vragen en antwoorden kun je lezen in het Bijbelrooster.En na het lezen kunnen we er over nadenken. Na het nadenken de hulp van de Heere vragen om ook te doen wat de Bijbel ons leert over hulp naar anderen toe, naar je na ...
Vluchtelingen
De Bijbel over vluchtelingenIn de Bijbel komen we, sinds de eerste mens, veel verschillende soorten vluchtelingen tegen. We ko-men ze ook tegen in het Bijbelrooster. Het rooster begint al met de vlucht van Lot uit Sodom. We lezen ook wat God van ons vraagt in de zorg voor vluchtelingen. Ko ...
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 ...
OUR DUTY IN THE MORNING
Whatever others do, let God hear our voice in the morning, and in the morning let us direct our praises unto Him.I beseech you, suffer a word of exhortation concerning this. I know what an influence it would have upon the prosperity of your souls, to be constant and sincere in your secret ...
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