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THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST
We have contemplated Christ’s humiliation, wherein the Sun or righteousness appeared as a setting sun, gone out of sight. But as the sun, when to us is set, begins a new day in another part of the world; so Christ, having finished his course in this world, rises again to perform another glorious ...
DARKNESS COVERS THE EARTH
There is a natural and there is a spiritual darkness. The natural darkness of the night is a work of God in Creation. Light and darkness, light in the day and darkness in the night, are works of God in Creation, Genesis 1.Spiritual darkness, of which the natural darkness is an emblem, is t ...
A SALVATION SEEKING SOUL UNTO WHOM AN ACT OF GRACE IS SHOWN
What a benefit it is if we, through grace, may learn and spiritually experience, that which happened to one sick of the palsy. We can say that here a happy wretched one is brought unto the feet of the Lord Jesus, Who glorified the wonders of grace unto him. He was thereto sent of the Father to se ...
SHILOH COMETH
It shall soon be Christmas again. The great wonder, “God revealed in the flesh,” shall be commemorated.The world is very busy making preparations to celebrate Christmas in its way, which is not in accordance with the Word of God. Alas! the world does not know nor desire the true Christmas. ...
CHRIST EXALTED
The apostle in this chapter particularly opposes some among the Christian Corinthians, who denied the resurrection of the dead, and infected the church with their doctrine. There were two sorts of persons in that age who were especially great opposers of the doctrine of the resurrection: one amon ...
ZEAL FOR THE SALVATION OF SINNERS (Concl.)
3. We wish you to know and enjoy the present pleasures of true religion. Let strangers to godliness say what they please, we maintain that the ways of wisdom are pleasantness, and her paths are peace. Some of us have tried both, the pleasures of sin and the pleasures of religion; and we are bold ...
GOD’S WAY OF DELIVERING HIS CHURCH
It affords matter of great comfort that all the providence of God is for the good of His church. And since His providence is as vast as His omniscience, the church’s misery cannot be hid from God’s eye, let it be in what part of the earth soever, for His eyes run to and fro throughout the whole e ...
CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH
“Earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.” (Jude 3) These werds contain two parts:I. We should retain the faith delivered to the saints.II. We should earnestly contend to keep it. ...
CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH (Concluded)
All doctrines that are taught you to believe, reduce them thither; there is no profession of faith to be built, but the stones must be fetched from this mountain. If you believe divine truths, but not because the Scripture propounds them, your faith is but human. If you believe anything the Scrip ...
GOOD TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY
There was reason for the shepherds to fear. An angel of God appeared to them. We read that the glory of the Lord shone round about them. Every revelation of God and His heavenly power and glory will always cause fear in the hearts of men. God is the Most High and who can stand before Him and live ...
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