(4) Make up your accounts daily, that when sickness and weakness come, we have not our greatest and most laborious work to do. It is an atheistic folly to put off all until sickness, whereas they know...  Read More

Seeing then we cannot avoid sickness nor death, let us consider briefly how to fit ourselves for it beforehand. (1) Before sickness labour to make God your friend, who is Lord of life and death. Is th...  Read More

Observe here how one wave follows another. After Epaphroditus had endured a long and dangerous voyage, he meets with a long and dangerous sickness. It is the nature of us. Let us not dream of any imm...  Read More

Evey man's life is a warfare, but most of all and above all, the minister is continually in war and strife. They are soldiers, leaders; they carry the standard. They of all others are in the most dan...  Read More

Paul calls Epaphroditus his 'fellow labourer,' in regard of the pains he endured; and 'fellow soldier,' in regard of the perils and dangers he jointly did undergo with the apostle. The doctrine that a...  Read More

God's providence extends to every particular thing. He guides our incomings and our outgoings; he disposes of our journeys; his providence extends to the smallest things, to the sparrows and to the h...  Read More

We should seek for no blessing of God so much as for himself. What is there in the world of equal goodness to draw us away from our God? If to preserve the dearest thing we have in the world, we break...  Read More

In the division of things, God gives himself to those who are his and when he does, he gives the best portion he could possibly give. There are many good things in the world, but none of these are a C...  Read More