The love of Christ daily loads us with benefits. He gives us nothing but what is good. He blesses our curses, temptations, afflictions, sin and death, and they all prove good to us. Even all his ways...  Read More

Now faith is ‘the assurance of things hoped for.’ It helps us to be content before we receive our distant and future comforts. A Christian has tasted how sweet God is in Christ, therefore he groans a...  Read More

The soul is immortal, and it will have sensibility forever. No one can kill the soul. If all the angels in heaven, and all the men on earth, could lay all their strength together, they cannot kill or...  Read More

The body is called the house of the soul. Now the house is much inferior to him that dwells in it. And yet, alas, with grief, how common it is for men to spend all their time, care, strength, and att...  Read More

When you are oppressed with the weight of any duty and service in your calling, improve your trust in God's power. Perhaps you find the duty of your calling too heavy for your weak shoulders: lay the...  Read More

Since faith is 'the assurance of things hoped for', it is our best help, in suffering, for it teaches us to counterbalance our temptations with our hopes. When the devil would make you faint and lazy ...  Read More

We should have such a faith to substantiate our hopes and to check sensuality, for we find the corrupt heart of man is all for present satisfaction. Though the pleasures of sin are short and inconsid...  Read More

Our God is a safe portion, a secure portion. He is a portion that no one can rob you of. He is a portion that no one can touch or take from you. He is a portion that no one can cheat or spoil you of....  Read More

When Christ became our sacrifice, he bore away our sins. The word ‘to bear’ is a full and emphatic word, signifying not only to bear, but to bear away. This is a real purging of sin. How great a merc...  Read More

The Spirit of holiness in us is God seal upon us signifying that we are his. He is the earnest of the glory to come. Great care must now be taken to make him the principle of all our operations and t...  Read More

There seems to be a secret opposition between our name and the name of God. When we come to pray, we should distinctly remember whose name is to be glorified, so that God may be at the end of every ...  Read More

O how little do we aim at the glory of God and regard it in our prayers! We should seek it not only above the profits and pleasures of this life, but even above life itself. But alas, since the fall,...  Read More

Saints should consider the power of God as available for them. They should impress it upon their souls until all their doubts and fears are silenced. We may count this attribute our portion and reap ...  Read More

It is the saints’ duty, and should be their care, not only to believe that God is Almighty, but also to strongly believe that his almighty power is engaged for our defence and help in all of our stra...  Read More

One of Satan's devices to draw the soul into sin is to present the bait, and hide the hook; to present the golden cup, and hide the poison; to present the sweet, and the pleasure, but hide from the s...  Read More

Having exhorted the saints at Ephesus to a holy resolution and courage in their warfare, the apostle leads them out of themselves unto his almighty strength. The strength of every saint lies in the L...  Read More

If you have sincerely given yourself up to God, and consented to his covenant, show it, by turning the face of your endeavors and conversation quite another way; seek heaven more fervently and dilige...  Read More

Have you taken God for your happiness? Where does the desire of your heart lie? What is the source of your greatest satisfaction? Come then, and with Abraham lift up your eyes eastward, and westward,...  Read More

The new man takes a new course. His conversation is in heaven. No sooner does Christ call one by effectual grace, but he immediately becomes a follower of Christ. When God has given him a new heart, ...  Read More

This life is not to be valued but as it yields opportunities to glorify God. We were not sent into the world to live for ourselves, but for God. If we could make ourselves, then we could live for our...  Read More

Holiness is required, that we may not be a disgrace to God and a dishonour to him. The sin of God's people stains his honour and profanes his name. When men profess to be a people near God, and live ...  Read More

There is in each of us an envy; O how hard a matter it is to rejoice in the gifts, graces, and labours of others, and be content in circumstances, when God casts us by as unworthy, and uses others to...  Read More

As you seek the prosperity of this society, it is of vast importance that you should avoid contention. A contentious people will be a miserable people. The contentions that have been among you, since...  Read More

Jesus appears before God for us—representing us continually before his Father—and mark: not only has Jesus this liberty to enter into heaven, but all the saints, and that not only at death but in the...  Read More