As for the assurance of salvation, we must do our part too, though it begins with God. He loves us first and embraces us first; and we must love in return and embrace in return. Lord, you must begin....  Read More

That we may maintain our assurance of salvation, see the grounds of it. It is not in our perfection, for then the poor disciples, where had they been? Alas! They had dealt unfaithfully with Christ. Bu...  Read More

(2) Likewise, we may know those who belong to God by our sympathy and antipathy—our sympathy with them that be good, and antipathy to that which is wicked. There is a love of that which is good. So g...  Read More

Knowing you are a true believer: (1) Those that belong to God, the Spirit of God witnesses to them that they are sons. There will be some intimations, and insinuations, and hints, though the Spirit o...  Read More

Beloved, what cannot we expect from God, who is now our God! What he is, what he is able to do, what he has, all is ours. The wise merchant in the gospel sold all for the field wherein the treasure w...  Read More

Who gives us a being to be Christians, to have a new nature, but God? Who maintains and preserves that being but God? And who keeps and preserves us until we are changed into a glorious being in heav...  Read More

What is it for us to make God our God? It is this: to set up God a throne in our hearts; to give him a sovereignty over all things in the world, that we may say in truth of heart, God is our joy, God...  Read More

I beseech you, do not lose the comfort of it, that in Christ, God is our God. Perhaps we cannot say, great houses are ours, or friends are ours, or inheritances ours. That is no matter. We can say, t...  Read More

This is a weighty point for directing our devotion, that we may know in what order to look on God. See God in Christ; see all things in Christ first, and then in us. Look upon him as Father to Christ...  Read More

Beloved, live upon this. Here is the love of God the Father, who is content to be a Father even in our sinful condition. If be a Father to us, as to Christ, then let not our hearts be discouraged in ...  Read More

The word father is a word of relation. It binds God to us and us to God. We are to honour him as our Father. This one word is sufficient to express our duty to a father: reverence; for it includes a ...  Read More

What we may expect from God being a father: (2) Father, a name of comfort. It is the speech of a natural man, 'A little punishment is enough from a father.' 'He knows whereof we are made; he remember...  Read More

What we may expect from God being a father: (1) We may expect whatever a child may expect from a father. God takes not upon him empty names. He says he will be a father, not only called a father. Fat...  Read More

This may comfort us in the consideration of all our sins: for sin past, and for corruption present, and sin that we may commit in the time to come. For anything that is past, if we confess our sins t...  Read More

What we may expect from God being a father: (1) We may expect whatever a child may expect from a father. God takes not upon him empty names. He says he will be a father, not only called a father. Fat...  Read More

He is there to plead our cause. He is there as our surety to appear for us, and not only so, but as a counsellor to plead for us; and not only so, but one of us, as if a brother should plead for a br...  Read More

He ascended to leave his Spirit, that he might send the Comforter. He went away himself, who was the great Comforter while he was below. But Christ ascended to heaven that they might have comfort thr...  Read More

Beloved, let us not lose the comfort of the constancy and immutability of God's love. Let us conceive that all the sweet links of salvation are held strong on God's part, not on ours; the firmness is...  Read More

How can it be that we are considered Christ's brothers? Christ is the first-born of many brethren (Rom. 8:29). He is the Son of God by nature; and all others are his brothers and sisters by grace and...  Read More

Jesus said to Mary, 'Go to my brethren.’ I have another work for you to do, ‘Touch me not.’ You clasp about me as if you had nothing to do. There is another work to do that pleases me better: to comf...  Read More

Take heed of such a temper of soul, as cares not whether we find Christ or no. Oh take heed of that! If we will seek him, seek him as Mary did on that first resurrection morning. She sought him early...  Read More

Why does Christ conceal himself at times? Four reasons why: (1) To see whether we can live by faith, or whether we be altogether addicted to sense, as the world is, who live altogether by sense and n...  Read More

As Mary wept at the tomb of Jesus, she stooped down and looked into the sepulchre, and there saw two angels in white: a colour of glory, purity, and joy, because it was a time of joy. They were one a...  Read More

In this moment let us provide for eternity. Out of eternity before, and eternity after, issues this little spot of time to do good in. Let us sow to the Spirit, count all time lost which we either do...  Read More