We must engage the shield of faith for our defence against the fiery darts of Satan's temptations. There are three acts of faith which bind God (though we speak with reverence), to help us— (1.) The ...  Read More

Godliness must be our principal business or we shall lose our reward. Precious things cannot be had without the greatest difficulty. They that desire great reward must run through many dangers. Natur...  Read More

Godliness is a work of the greatest moment, and calls for our utmost effort. The greatest folly of man is seen when he is busy about nothing. He is like the empty fellow that showed himself to Alexan...  Read More

Godliness should be every man's main business. This is God's chief end in sending him into the world. Liberty is the freedom to act at one's own pleasure, but a slave is a living instrument to serve ...  Read More

O the sweet enjoyment of love and joy in heaven! What a high favour that God allows us to love him and embrace him with arms that have embraced lust and sin before him! But this is not all—he returns...  Read More

To stand in heaven and look back on earth, and weigh them together in the balance, must transport the soul and make it cry out, ‘Is this the place that cost so dear as the blood of God? No wonder, O ...  Read More

Discipline is a metaphor from wrestlers contending for a prize. It is a resolution to put forth full strength and power. Paul challenged Timothy to godliness at all cost. We must follow our heavenly ...  Read More

Let this encourage you, O Christian, in your conflict with Satan—the skirmish may be sharp, but it cannot be long. Let him tempt you, and his wicked instruments trounce you, but in a little while you...  Read More

Satan’s empire is bounded by this little spot of time. This mock king acts the part of a prince, but when Christ comes at the end of the world, Satan shall be degraded, his crown taken off, his sword...  Read More

In the battle against the flesh we must consider that the appetite itself might innocently desire a forbidden object. It was not the appetite itself that was forbidden, but the sinful expression of i...  Read More

CONSIDER what a great deal of sin there is in the thoughts of man, and how dangerous it is to your soul. O the vile sins that are committed in men's thoughts! Victory begins by avoiding the object fr...  Read More

Time is man's opportunity to accomplish the work for which he is living. He who makes best use of the time considers what he parts with of lesser value than what is gained. It is God that calls you t...  Read More

Directions against covetousness—THREE: (9.) Consider the dreadful effects of the love of riches. It is a most certain sign of a state of death and misery. It is the departing of the heart from God to...  Read More

Directions against covetousness—Two: (4.) Consider the life of Christ and how he condemned worldliness by his example. He did not choose to be a prince, to have great possessions, lands, money, and b...  Read More

Directions against covetousness—ONE: (1.) Remember how short a time you have to enjoy the wealth you have accumulated. How quickly are you stripped of all! The world is just an inn or passage, and lif...  Read More

Do not lose any measure of the comfort that is found in the sweet privilege that whatsoever is in God is mine. If I am in a perplexed condition, his wisdom is mine; if in great danger, his power is m...  Read More

The greatest trial of trust is in our last encounter with death, where we will find not only a deprivation of all comforts in this life, but a confluence of all ill at once. But we must know that God...  Read More

For our better encouragement in these sad times, and to help our trust in God, we should often call to mind the former experiences, which either ourselves or others have had of God's goodness, and ma...  Read More

For the better settling of our trust in God, a further discovery is necessary than of the nature and providence of God; for though the nature of God is written in the book of creation in such great l...  Read More

Nothing should displease us that pleases God, and neither should anything be pleasing to us that displeases him. This conformity is the ground of comfort. 'If we acknowledge God in all our ways, he w...  Read More

God's ways seem often to us full of contradictions because his course is to bring things to pass by contrary means. There is a mystery not only in God's decree concerning man's eternal state, but lik...  Read More

Though man has a freedom in working, and of all men the hearts of kings are most free, yet even these are guided by an overruling power (Prov. 21:1), as the rivers of water are carried in their chann...  Read More

The consideration of God's continual providence is a great stay to our faith. It is good to know that God's providence is extended as far as his creation. Every creature, in every element and place r...  Read More

(8) David  does not only resolve to turn to God, but presently takes up his soul before it strayed too far from God. The further and the longer the soul wanders from God, the more it entangles itself...  Read More