The Spirit of God sets us at liberty, in the whole course of salvation, from the beginning to the end, when he calls us, justifies us, sanctifies us, and fully glorifies us. (1) The Spirit of God cal...  Read More

If we will have the Holy Spirit, study the gospel of Christ. Why, before Christ, was there was so little of the Spirit? Because there was but little measure of the knowledge of Christ. The more Chris...  Read More

(2) By the conviction given by the Spirit. The Spirit of Christ convinces (John 14:8). That is, he brings a clear, evident conviction that the truth of God is the truth of God. It is not doubtful. Th...  Read More

How can we know whether or not we have the Spirit of Christ? (1) By the activity of the Spirit. The Spirit is a vigorous working being, and therefore all three persons of the Trinity take upon themse...  Read More

It is a point of much comfort, that there is such abundance of Spirit in Christ, that we have a fullness from which to receive. Is it not a comfort for Christians to know that Christ has the Spirit t...  Read More

The most powerful means that ever was ordained for our good will be dead and heartless if Christ is not there by his Spirit to put life into it. The Scriptures profit nothing, preaching profits nothin...  Read More

The scope of the whole Scriptures is Christ. What are all the Scriptures without Christ? The law is a dead letter; and indeed, so is the gospel without Christ. He is that Spirit which gives life to a...  Read More

Christ has the Spirit in himself in a more eminent and excellent manner than all others; and it must be so for these reasons: (1) From the near union between the human nature and the divine. There is...  Read More

(6) Keep the graces of the Spirit, that emerge from a true faith, in continual exercise. For grace exercised, brings certain comfort. Sincerity alone will not comfort a man, unless it grows up to frui...  Read More

(4) Let us make conscience not to yield to any base doubts, fears, objections of Satan, and our own hearts. When we find any work of grace, deny not the work of God, lest we grieve the Spirit of God....  Read More

My faith is weak! (1) The office of faith is to knit us to Christ, and the weakest faith will do that, as well as the strongest. Faith is to bring us to Christ; and then to look to him for all perfec...  Read More

(7) And because there can be no more comfort than there is care of duty, therefore, together with innocence, let us be careful of all duties in all our several relations. Let us consider in what rela...  Read More

(4) When we have these promises, let us labour to thoroughly understand them and our comfort in them. Next, to believe the truth of them, which are as true as God, who is truth itself. Then to love t...  Read More

Ways we labour to comfort our hearts. (1) There must be a search into the heart for the grounds of our trouble. Oftentimes Christians are troubled, but they cannot tell from where. They must search t...  Read More

Reasons we should not yield to excessive sorrow in trouble. (1) We wrong our own selves when we give way to grief and sorrow that is immoderate and inordinate. The soul is put out of joint by it. We ...  Read More

'Let not your hearts be troubled.' Hear the dying words of our Saviour to his disciples. Comforts must be founded on strong reasons. He stays our spirits by reasons stronger than the trouble. For wha...  Read More

Christ knew that God is nearest in support when he is furthest off in feeling. Often, where he is nearest the inward man, to strengthen it with his love, he is furthest off in comfort to outward sens...  Read More

Do you wonder why God hates sin so much and that men regard it so little? This is done not only by the lewd sort of the world, but by common dead-hearted persons, who regard not spiritual sins at all...  Read More

How to discern the ugliness of sin. In what way are we to look upon the ugly thing, sin, to make it uglier to us? Beloved, if we would think right about sin, let us see it in the casting of Adam out ...  Read More

(4) If we would have God to shield us and be a hiding-place in the worst times, let us mourn for our own sins and the sins of the times in which we live. Let us keep ourselves unspotted by the sins o...  Read More

What course should we take to prevent the judgment of God, and keep it from us? (1) Labour to meet God by speedy repentance before any decree comes forth against us. There is yet hope; for as we have...  Read More

(Sign 6) Again, decay in our first love is a sign of approaching judgment. God threatened the church of Ephesus to remove his candlestick from among them, for their decay in their first love (Rev. 2:...  Read More

(Sign 4) When sin grows ripe, and abounds in a land or nation, at such time as this a man may know there is some fearful judgment approaching. But when is sin ripe? When it is impudent; when men grow...  Read More

What are the signs that judgment is to fall upon the people of God? (Sign 1) ‘This and that have I done,’ said the Lord, 'and yet you have not returned to me' (Amos 4:6, 7). There are declines before...  Read More