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Do you belong to that class of persons who really profess Christian faith and Christian obedience, and are you trying, however weakly, to follow Christ in the midst of an evil world? I think I know something of what goes on in your heart. You sometimes feel that you will never persevere to the end, and will some day give up your profession of faith. You are sometimes tempted to write bitter

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Feb. 15. My discouragements increase daily among this people, by reason of the divisive temper inflamed by the late fast, so that there are several of them whose face I have not seen since that time. My circumstances are extremely heavy: they seem to have little desire for the gospel: the most weighty truths look as nauseous to them; though if any thing relating to the public fall in, they use

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Those that are at peace in their own consciences will be peaceable towards others. A busy, contentious, quarrelsome disposition, argues that it never felt peace from God, and though many men think it commendable to censure the infirmities of others, yet it argues their own weakness; for it is a sign of strength, where we see in men anything good, to bear with their weakness. Who was more

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It will therefore be no small advantage unto us to have our souls and consciences always affected with and in due subjection unto the power of this truth, — namely, that "to be spiritually minded is life and peace;" whence it will follow, that whatever we may think otherwise, if we are not so, we have neither of them, neither life nor peace. It will, I say, be of use unto us if we are affected

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Broken bones occassion pain, strong pain, yea, pain that will make a man or woman groan 'with the groanings of a deadly wounded man' (Ezek 30:24). Soul pain is the sorest pain, in comparison to which the pain of the body is a very tolerable thing (Prov 18:14). Now here is soul pain, here is heart pain; here we are discoursing of a wounded, or a broken spirit; wherefore this is pain to be felt to

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How easily do we bear our brethren's pains and reproaches, wants and afflictions, in comparison of our own! How few thoughts, and how little cost and labour. do we use for their supply, in comparison of what we do for ourselves! Nature indeed teaches us to be sensible of our own case, but grace tells us, that we should not make so great a difference as we do, but should love our neighbour as

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There are times when solitude is better than company, and silence is wiser than speech. We would be better Christians if we were alone more often, waiting on God and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for service in His kingdom. We ought to ponder the things of God, because that is how we get the real nutriment out of them. [Charles Spurgeon ]

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Many men hear sermons much—and yet remain worldly. They may pray like angels—and yet live as if there were no heaven nor hell. They will talk much of heaven—and yet those who are spiritual and wise, smell their breath to stink strong of earth. All their endeavors can never cure them of this soul-killing disease—until faith breaks forth in its glorious actings. A man may hear sermons and pray many

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With what mighty intention of spirit should the heart be put forth towards Jesus Christ in all things! Though God gives you an estate and honor in the world, if you have not Christ you have nothing. You have not that which makes way for you to eternity. Therefore, do not be satisfied with anything without Christ. As Abraham said, What wilt Thou give me Lord, seeing I go childless? So you say, "

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That which carnal Hearers make light of, includes in it, Christ himself, and the Blessings, which he bestows."Concerning Christ himself, the Gospel declares his Person and Nature, and the great Things he has done and suffered for Men, his redeeming us from the Wrath of God by his Blood, and purchasing a Grantof Salvation for us. The same Gospel makes an Offerof Christ to Sinners, that if they

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Inordinate and immoderate sorrow for any affliction doth many times provoke God to lay on greater and heavier afflictions upon a people; it is the way to provoke the Lord to double his strokes upon you, to make your burdens heavier and your bondage greater. God deals with us, as a Father with his child; if the father sees that the child bears his corrections kindly he will give him the less; but

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I WILL now call to mind my past foulness, and the carnal corruptionsmy soul, not because I love them, but that I may love Thee, O my God.For love of Thy love do I it, recalling, in the very bitterness of myremembrance, my most vicious ways, that Thou mayest grow sweet tome, — Thou sweetness without deception! Thou sweetness happy andassured! and re-collecting myself out of that my dissipation, in

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It is a most singular honor of the saints' rest, to be called the purchased possession; that is, the fruit of the blood of the Son of God; yea, the chief fruit, the end and perfection of all the fruits and efficacy of that blood. Greater love than this there is not, to lay down the life of the lover. And to have this our Redeemer ever before our eyes, and the liveliest sense and freshest

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Our reproofs of sin must come from a warm heart. Paul's spirit was stirred within him when he saw the city given to idolatry. Jeremiah tells us the word of God was a fire in his bones; it broke out of his mouth like a flame out of a furnace. The word is a hammer; but it breaks not the stony heart when lightly laid on. King James said of a minister in his time, that he preached as if death were at

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And as it serves to render the mind more judicious, so it causes the memory to be more tenacious, and retentive of truths. The chain of truth is easily held in the memory, when one truth links in another; but the loosing of a link endangers the scattering of the whole chain. We use to say, order is the mother of memory; I am sure it is a singular friend to it: hence it is observed, those that

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Covetousness, the cutthroat of grace, and canker of the soul, like an eating, insatiable wolf, will either still feed upon gain, or else gnaw upon the heart with fretting… The Father of spirits hath inspired into our immortal souls a large capacity, and such an infinite appetite, that no finite excellency, created comfort, or earthly thing can possibly fill. Gold, silver, riches, honours, crowns,

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I well know that the poor coward flesh is fretful and impatient under afflictions, and would gladly have a smoother, easier path. But we cannot choose our own trials, nor our own afflictions. All are appointed in fixed weight and measure;and the promise is that all things shall work together for good to those who love God.Wherever we go, and wherever we are, we must expect trials to arise. But it

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The Christian also looks to the end of afflictions! The end may sometimes come in this world. In reference to this, the utmost that the believer can be sure of is--that they will end in God's time. They may last for his whole life. The sickness which afflicts his body may be unto death! The loss which he has sustained in his property may be irreparable, and poverty may go down with him to the

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With men it is confess and have execution, but with God confess and have mercy. We should never lay open our sins but for mercy. So it honors God; and when he is honored,he honors the soul with inward peace and tranquility. We can never have peace in our souls till we have dealt roundly with our sins,and favour them not a whit [bit]; till we have ripened our confession to be a thorough confession

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Consider the suddenness of judgment. Who among all the burnt citizens did ever expect to see London laid in ashes in four days time? God's judgments many times seize upon men's persons, houses, and estates, as the soldiers did Archimedes whilst he was busy drawing lines in the dust. Isa. lxiv. 3. 'When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for.' When the citizens saw London in flames,

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Happiness of heaven. When the body enjoys the perfections of health and strength, the motions of the animal spirits are not only brisk and free, but also harmonious; there is a regular proportion in the motion from all parts of the body, that begets delight in the soul, and makes the body feel pleasantly all over God has excellently contrived the nerves and parts of the human body. But few men

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I insist not that the life of the Christian shall breathe nothing but the perfect Gospel, though this is to be desired, and ought to be attempted. I insist not so strictly on evangelical perfection, as to refuse to acknowledge as a Christian any man who has not attained it. In this way all would be excluded from the Church, since there is no man who is not far removed from this perfection, while

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Let your company be always such as you may get good from, and do good unto. When you are alone, think of good things; and when you are in company, speak of good things. Keep the truth, and the truth will keep you. And whatever mercy or blessing you recieve, trace it to Heaven's gates, and to Christ's blood; for it flowed from Christ's blood, and leads you to Heaven. [William Bridge]

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For at my first entry into this trial (being cast down and troubledwith challenges and jealousies of His love, whose name and testimonyI now bear in my bonds), I feared nothing more than that I was castenover the dyke of the vineyard, as a dry tree. But, blessed be Hisdear name, the dry tree was in the fire, and was not burnt; His dewcame down and quickened the root of a withered plant. And now

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3. Elevation, and often lifting up of the heart towards heaven. What Christian heart can endure to discontinue its sweet familiarity and humble intercourse with God for one day? Let thy broken heart, therefore, every day, besides solemn and ordinary ejaculations, evening and morning, and upon other special occasions, be sure, 1. To bathe itself deliciously in the blissful depths of God's

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Here is a just reproof to such as are discontented with their condition. This disease is almost epidemical. Some not content with the calling which God hath set them in, must be a step higher, from the plough to the throne; who like the spider in the Proverbs, will “take hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.” Others from the shop to the pulpit; (Nu. 12. 2) they would be in the temple

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Presbyterians Do Not Observe Holy Days. We believe, and teach, in our public formularies, that "there is no day, under the Gospel dispensation, commanded to be kept holy, except the Lord's day, which is the Christian Sabbath." We believe, indeed, and declare, in the same formula, that it is both scriptural and rational, to observe special days of Fasting and Thanksgiving, as the extraordinary

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"The true Christian was intended by Christ to prove all things by the Word of God, all churches, all ministers, all teaching, all preaching, all doctrines, all sermons, all writings, all opinions, all practices. These are His marching orders. Prove all by the Word of God; measure all by the measure of the Bible; compare all with the standard of the Bible; weigh all in the balances of the Bible;

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"And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not." A golden truth is couched in the fact that the Saviour put the myrrhed wine cup from his lips. On the heights of heaven the Son of God stood of old, and as he looked down upon our globe he measured the long descent to the utmost depths of human misery; he cast up the sum total of all the agonies which expiation would

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Survey thoroughly beforehand with the glorious lamp of the word of life and truth; watch over narrowly with the enlightened eye of a tender conscience, and ever punctually manage, and conduct with the particular light of scriptural prudence, every action thou undertakest, or that shall at any time pass through thy hand, of what kind soever it be, whether natural, recreative, civil, of mercy, or

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If we were well advised we would not need to be taught to act reverently toward, God, for nature ought to bring us to that end. For [after all] what reason are we created in this world? Why do we live here if it isn't for the purpose of paying homeage to him from whom we received every good and to apply ourselves to glorify His majesty? That is the end and whole sum of this life.

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When I consider how my light is spent,Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,And that one talent which is death to hideLodged with me useless, though my soul more bentTo serve therewith my Maker, and presentMy true account, lest He returning chide,"Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?"I fondly ask; But patience, to preventThat murmur, soon replies "God doth not needEither man's work

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In the waters of life, the Divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade; and deeps where the elephant may swim. If we be not wise to distinguish, we may easily miscarry; he that can wade over the ford, cannot swim through the deep.... What infinite mischief hath arisen to the church of God from the presumption of ignorant and unlettered men, that

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Let us now, 1. Examine ourselves, whether there be so much tenderness of conscience in us as to close with those Scripture truths, or whether we are still in a way of consulting with flesh and blood. 2. Be humbled for former miscarriages and failings in these particulars, and for not walking accurately according to these Scripture rules. 3. Beware for the future; remember and apply these rules

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If the wicked be converted, he must be gluttonous and drunknen no more; he must live in pride, vanity, worldly-mindedness and sensual pleasures no more; and therefore he draws back from a holy life as it were from death itself. But what is this to those who have 'mortified the flesh with the affections and lusts'? Consider also that these forbidden pleasures are the greatest impediments, both

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By slighting of divine warnings, you will tempt satan to tempt your souls. Hethat dares slight divine warnings will stick at nothing that Satan shall tempt him to; yea, he does the utmost what lies in him to provoke Satan1 to follow him with the blackest and sorest temptations. He that slights divines warnings dams up all the springs of mercy, and turns the streams of loving-kindness and favour

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Prayer is the soul's sincere desire,Unuttered or expressed,The motion of a hidden fireThat trembles in the breast.Prayer is the burden of a sigh,The falling of a tear,The upward glancing of an eyeWhen none but God is near.Prayer is the simplest form of speechThat infant lips can try;Prayer the sublimest strains that reachThe Majesty on high.Prayer is the Christian's vital breath,The Christian's

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Already we have looked at the spring where the church flows forth. At this point it is proposed that we are to believe the church with this end in view: that we may have assurance that the whole number of the elect are joined by the bond of faith into one church and society and one people of God, which Christ our Lord is leader and prince, and, so to speak, Head of the one body, just as in him

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A contrite spirit is a penitent one; one sorely grieved, and deeply sorrowful, for the sins it has committed against God, and to the damage of the soul; and so it is to be taken in all those places where a contrite spirit is made mention of (see Psa. 34:18; Isa. 57:15; 66:2)As a man that has by his folly procured a broken leg or arm is heartily sorry that ever he was so foolish as to be engaged

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Truly my heart and soul have been far removed and deeply wounded by temptations and irritations of conscience, but I thank God that these have now largely relieved. So, then, it is my desire that I not be marked with the brand of a reprobate. I revoke all the questions and objections i raised and everything that may have tended in that direction. As for any ill-considered words I uttered in my

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Secondly, Remember, it is not hasty reading—but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the bee's touching of the flower, which gathers honey—but her abiding for a time upon the flower, which draws out the sweet. It is not he who reads most—but he who meditates most, who will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and

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John 832Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." John 6:37. All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. I. ALBEIT man, having brought himself into this woeful condition, be neither able to help himself, nor willing to be helped by God out of it, but rather inclined to lie still, insensible of it, till he perish;

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It is a matter of common agreement that without true religion we live a most miserable life, not above the level of brute beasts, and consequently there is no one who wishes to appear more completely alien to piety and the worship of God. Yet, there is a great difference in the way men declare there religion, for the majority goes by an earnest fear of God. But, whether they want to or not,

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The saints in heaven shall see and converse with Christ.They shall see him, as appearing in his glorified human nature, with their bodily eyes; and this will be a most glorious sight. The loveliness of Christ as thus appearing will be a most ravishing thing to them; for though the bodies of the saints shall appear with an exceeding beauty and glory, yet the body of Christ will without doubt

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It is right and holy therefore, men and brethren, rather to obey God than to follow those who, through pride and sedition, have become the leaders of a detestable emulation. For we shall incur no slight injury, but rather great danger, if we rashly yield ourselves to the inclinations of men who aim at exciting strife and tumults, so as to draw us away from what is good. Let us be kind one to

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"If the soul be gracious,the body shall be glorious."This passage is a glorious promise to us. It's repeated twice because we tend to think "That doesn't quite make sense. These words are difficult to believe." No one could foresee that faith would be so important until Christ actually said, "Everyone who believes in me will have eternal life." Now Jerome, Ambrose and Cyprian all believed in

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Let me speak to you, how kind a fellow-prisoner is Christ to me! Believe me, this kind of cross (that would not go by my door, but would needs visit me) is still the longer the more welcome to me. It is true, my silent, Sabbaths have been, and still are, as glassy ice whereon my faith can scarce hold its feet, and I am often blown on my back and off my feet with a storm of doubting. Yet truly,

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1. Of all the temptations that ever I met with in my life, to question the being of God, and the truth of His gospel, is the worst, and the worst to be borne; when this temptation comes, it takes away my girdle from me, and removeth the foundations from under me. Oh, I have often thought of that word, 'Have your loins girt about with truth'; and of that, 'When the foundations are destroyed,

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I tell you from the LORD, there is gold within; look in this bag, the bag of affliction; count over all the gold which the LORD has given you in this affliction, and then you will be quiet. If a mercy be taken away from you, consider the burden that is taken away too. If a misery come, consider the mercy that comes with it. Labour ever, labour to see both together, as well what is for you as

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Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor.For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly brokenDaniel,

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(1) Civil government is an ordinance of God established for God's glory and and the welfare of man. To that end God has entrusted into the hands of the lawful magistrate the sword. It is lawful for Christians to serve as magistrates in a lawful government and in even in an unlawful government (provided no oath of allegiance to an evil constitution is required), to

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Paul, in Titus 1:14, says: "Teach them not to give heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn them from the truth."This is a strong command, that we are not at all to regard the commandments of men. Is not this clear enough? And Paul gives his reason: they turn men from the truth, he says. For as has been said above, the heart cannot trust in Christ and at the same time in the

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"I can hardly recollect a single plan of mine, of which I have not since seen reason to be satisfied, that had it taken place in season and circumstance just as I proposed, it would, humanly speaking, have proved my ruin; or at least it would have deprived me of the greater good the Lord had designed for me. We judge of things by their present appearances, but the Lord sees them in their

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The mandatory part of the commandment implied is that we stand up for others and vindicate them when they are injured by lying lips. This is the sense of the commandment, not only that we should not slander falsely or accuse others; but that we should witness for them, and stand up in their defence, when we know them to be traduced. A man may wrong another as well by silence as by slander, when

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Concerning company, I advise,—1. That thou never cast thyself into wicked company, or press amongst the profane, especially from choice, voluntarily and delightfully; and abide no longer with them at any time, upon any occasion, than thou hast found warrant and a calling thereunto. It is uncomely, and incompatible with good conscience, and is not for the honour or comfort of God's children, to

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God is a present portion. He is a portion in hand, he is a portion in possession. All the scriptures that are cited to prove the doctrine, evidence this to be a truth, Ps 48:14; Isa 25:9. And so doth that Ps 46:1, "God is a very present help in trouble." God is a present help in many troubles, in great troubles, and in continued troubles [2] When the people of God are in their greatest extremity,

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In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth,no one can see the kingdom of God unlesshe is born again." John 3:3The change which our Lord here declaresneedful to salvation is evidently no slightor superficial one. It is not merely . . .reformation,or amendment,or moral change,or outward alteration of life.It is a thorough change of . . .heart,will, andcharacter.It is a resurrection.It is a

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Poverty of spirit should accompany us all our life long to let us see that we have no righteousness nor strength of our own for sanctification; that all the grace we have is out of ourselves, even for the performance of every holy duty; for though we have grace, yet we cannot bring that grace into act without new grace, even as there is a fitness in trees to bear fruit, but without the

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Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment: for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labour is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.[Jeremy Taylor]

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Q. 65.9. What are the sins of ministers against their people?A. The sins of ministers against their people are—1. Want of sincere and tender love to their souls, seeking more to receive earthly gain from them, than to do any good unto them. "I seek not yours, but you."—2 Cor 12:14. "His watchmen are blind; they are greedy dogs which can never have enough; they look every one for his gain from

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Read and read again, and do not despair of help to understand the will and mind of God though you think they are fast locked up from you. Neither trouble your heads though you have not commentaries and exposition. Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men. Also, what is from men is uncertain, and is often lost and tumbled over by men; but what

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Now go to, reader, and according to the order of Paul's writing [in Romans], even so do thou. First behold thyself diligently in the law of God, and see there thy just damnation. Secondarily, turn thine eyes to Christ, and see there the exceeding mercy of thy most kind and loving Father. Thirdly, remember that Christ made not this atonement that thou shouldest anger God again; neither cleansed

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I am glad that you have been acquainted, from your youth, with the wrestlings of God, being cast from furnace to furnace; knowing, if you were not dear to God, and if your health did not require so much of him, he would not spend as much physic upon you. All the brethren and sisters of Christ must be conformed to his image in suffering, Rom. viii.17, and some do more fully resemble the copy

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I compare the troubles which we have to undergo in the course of the year to a great bundle of fagots, far too large for us to lift. But God does not require us to carry the whole at once. He mercifully unties the bundle, and gives us first one stick, which we are to carry today, and then another, which we are to carry tomorrow, and so on. This we might easily manage, if we would only take the

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Let men say what they will, or pick holes where they may, they will never succeed in disproving these facts. To the Reformation, Englishmen owe an English Bible, and liberty for every man to read it. To the Reformation, they owe the knowledge of the way of peace with God, and of the right of every sinner to go straight to Christ by faith, without bishop, priest, or minister standing in his

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Dreadful are those descriptions in which Isaiah, Jeremiah, Joel, Habbakuk, and others, deplore the disorders of the church of Jerusalem. There was such general and extreme corruption in the people, in the magistrates, and in the priests, that Isaiah does not hesitate to compare Jerusalem to Sodom and Gomorrah. Religion was partly despised, partly corrupted. Their manners were generally

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"O Lord, what evil have we not done? Or if there is evil that we have not done, what evil is there that we have not spoken? If there is any that we have not spoken, what evil is there that we have not thought to do? But you, O Lord, are good. You are merciful. You saw how deep we were sunk in death, and it was your power that drained dry the well of corruption in the depths of our hearts. All

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God sometimes marvelously raiseth the souls of his saints with some close andnear approaches unto them -- gives them a sense of His eternal love, a taste ofthe embraces of His Son and the inhabitation of the Spirit, without the leastintervening disturbance; and then this is their assurance. But this life is nota season to be always taking wages in; our work is not yet done; we are notalways to

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In your letter, you mentioned friends who have left me. I would not think the world to be worldly if friends did not leave me. Using God's wisdom, I hope to use the world as an intelligent employer uses an untrustworthy employee. He does not trust him with money or anything important that he might steal. I pray to God that I will not trust this world with my joys, comforts, or confidence.

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What shall I say of Christ? The excelling glory of that object dazzles all apprehension, swallows up all expression. When we have borrowed metaphors from every creature that has any excellency or lovely property in it, till we have stript the whole creation bare of all its ornaments, and clothed Christ with all that glory; when we have even worn out our tongues, in ascribing praises to Him,

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A righteous man is devoted to holiness. The priests under the law were not only washed in the great laver but also adorned with glorious apparel, Exodus 28:2, the emblem of a righteous man who is not only washed from gross sin, but adorned with inward sanctity. He is what he seems. He does not have holiness painted on him but living in him. It is said of Zachariah and Elizabeth that "they were

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There are in the world many of the poor who yet are exceeding proud, but God sanctifies outward poverty to His children so that it promotes true poverty of spirit. As they are poor, so they have a mean esteem of themselves; it makes them inwardly more humble and more tractable to God's government. Therefore when we are under any cross let us observe how it works, see whether we join with God

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Ignorance is the mother of mistake, the cause of trouble, error, and of terror; it is the highway to hell, and it makes a man both a prisoner and a slave to the devil at once. Ignorance unmans a man; it makes a man a beast, yea, makes him more miserable than the beast that perisheth. There are none so easily nor so frequently taken in Satan's snares as ignorant souls. They are easily drawn to

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I am tempted to think that I am now an established Christian,that I have overcome this or that lust so long,that I have got into the habit of the opposite grace,so that there is no fear; I may venture very near the temptation nearer than other men. This is a lie of Satan. One might as well speak of gunpowder getting by habit of resisting fire, so as not to catch spark. As long as powder is wet,

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Satan usually keeps his greatest strength and most violent temptations unto the last. When he thinks we are at the weakest, then he commeth with the strongest assaults. If Satan had sent Job word of the death of his children first, all the rest would have been as nothing to him; he would not have regarded the loss of his cattle when he heard that all his Children were crushed to death by the fall

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Admitting fully that the foundations of Christian character are always the same and that all God's children repent, believe, are holy, prayerful and Scripture-loving, we must make allowances for wide varieties in their temperaments and habits of mind. We must not undervalue others because they are not exactly like ourselves. The flowers in a garden may differ widely, and yet the gardener takes

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By God's all-wise appointment, our assemblies are the food and the nourishment of our souls. It is the main way whereby we publicly identify with Christ and His Gospel. We evidence our love for Christ by our loyalty and support of one another in opposition to all false worship. Many things will rise up in competition to the diligent attendance of our assemblies. We must recognize and refuse to

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The saints are the walking pictures of God. If God be our Father we shall love to see His picture of holiness in believers, shall pity them for their infirmities, but love them for their graces.It may justly be suspected that God is not Father of those who love not His children. Though they retain the communion of saints in their creed, they banish the communion of saints out of their company.

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"Oh, better were it for you to die in a jail, in a ditch, in a dungeon, than to die in your sins. If death, as it will take away all your comforts, would take away all your sins too, it were some mitigation; but your sins will follow you when your friends leave you, and all your worldly enjoyments shake hands with you. Your sins will not die with you as a prisoner's other debts will; but they

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Brethren, sin is committed quickly. You have a temptation come, and you fall upon the sin and act upon it. The sin, the act of it, is transient and quickly gone. The guilt is that which sticks with you.When a man or woman has satisfied their lust in a sinful way, the guilt sticks behind. Perhaps the time is gone, as far as the pleasure of it. Perhaps it was yesterday or such a night or time

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1 Corinthians 10: 24. Let no man seek his own: But every man another's wealth.The occasion of these words of the Apostle Paul, was because of the abuses which were in the Church of Corinth. Which abuses arose chiefly through swelling pride, self-love and conceitedness, for although this Church was planted by Paul and watered by Apollo, and much increased by the Lord; yet the sower of tares was

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I know of no surer way of a people's perishing than by being led by one who does not speak out straight and honestly denounce evil. If the minister halts between two opinions, do you wonder that the congregation is undecided? If the preacher trims and twists to please all parties, can you expect his people to be honest? If I wink at your inconsistencies will you not soon be hardened in them?

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Consider the majesty of God with whom we have to do. He sees how it is with us in prayer, whether we are deeply affected with those things we pray for. "The king came in to see the guests" (Matt. 22:11). So when we go to pray, the King of glory comes in to see in what frame we are. He has a window which looks into our breasts, and if He sees a dead heart, He may turn a deaf ear. Nothing will

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I shall leave every man to his Judge, and shall judge nothing before the time; and I wish every man to consider sadly and seriously, by what spirit and principles he is led, and whether he be seeking the things of Christ, or his own things; whether he be pleasing Christ; whether sin be more shamed and holiness more advanced, this way or that way; which way is the most agreeable to the Word of

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Knowledge is man's excellency above the beasts that perish (Ps. 32:9). The knowledge of Christ is the Christian's excellency above the Heathen (1 Cor. 1:23, 24). Practical and saving knowledge of Christ is the sincere Christian's excellency above the self-cozening hypocrite (Heb. 6:4, 6). But methodical and well-digested knowledge of Christ is the strong Christian's excellency above the weak (Heb

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On This Reformation Day:To his Reverend and Dear Father JOHN STAUPITZ, Professor of Sacred Theology, Vicar of the Augustinian Order, Brother Martin Luther, his pupil, sendeth greeting.I remember, dear Father, that once, among those pleasant and wholesome talks of thine, with which the Lord Jesus ofttimes gives me wondrous consolation, the word poenitentia F86 was mentioned, We were moved with

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After that arch-persecutor, Gardiner, was dead, others followed, of whom Dr. Morgan, bishop of St. David's, who succeeded Bishop Farrar, is to be noticed. Not long after he was installed in his bishoipric, he was stricken by the visitation of God; his food passed through the throat, but rose again with great violence. In this manner, almost literally starved to death, he terminated his existence.

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Then the Interpreter took him, and led him up towards the door of the palace; and behold, at the door stood a great company of men, as desirous to go in, but durst not. There also sat a man at a little distance from the door, at a table-side, with a book and his inkhorn before him, to take the names of them that should enter therein; he saw also that in the doorway stood many men

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WE ought not to set up our rest in low degrees of grace; or content ourselves to be like others in grace. We should labor (if it be possible) to go beyond all others in grace. It did not satisfy Job that he had gotten to such a degree, to such a frame and temper of heart, to such a course of holiness, as his neighbors or brethren that were good, had attainted unto, but he labored to go beyond

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IT will be so between man and man. If one has wronged you, and you have pardoned him, you expect that he should do what he can for you. It should be thus with you and God. You have wronged God, others have sinned as well as you, and other's sins have been furthered by you. This now should inflame your hearts. "I have sin enough in myself, and I have been the cause of it in thousands and

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The world, indeed, seems to be weary of the just, righteous, holy ways of God, and of that exactness in walking according to His institutions and commands which it will be one day known that He doth require. But the way to put a stop to this declension is not by accommodating the commands of God to the corrupt courses and ways of men. The truths of God and the holiness of His precepts must be

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My Dear and Worthy Sister- You are truly blessed in the Lord, however a sour world gloom and frown on you, if you continue in the faith settled and grounded, and be not moved away from the hope of the Gospel. It is good that there is a heaven, and it is not a night-dream and a fancy. It is a wonder that men deny not there is a heaven, as they deny there is any to it but of men's making. You have

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Broken. Tyndale renders it a troubled heart; but I think that there is more in it. I take it therefore, to be a heart disabled, as to former actions even as a man whose bones are broken is disabled as to his ways of running, leaping, wrestling, or ought else, which vainly he was wont to do; wherefore that which was called a broken heart in the text, he calls his broken bones in verse the eighth:

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Take example from him in doing evil, how to do good; we may take example thus far from Satan, to be as forward to do good, as he is to do hurt, to be as watchful against him as he is watchful against us. If this be his business to go to and fro through the earth, and his intent be to devour souls, then where ever we go in the world up and down, we ought to be careful to keep our own souls, and

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Amazed at sightless whirring of their wheels,Confounded with the recklessness and strife,Distract with fears of what may next ensue,Some break rude exit from the house of life,And plunge into a silence out of view--Whence not a cry, no wafture once revealsWhat door they have broke open with the knife.Help me, my Father, in whatever dismay,Whatever terror in whatever shape,To hold the faster by

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At this day, the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of Deity deposited in human nature as a means of suppressing the name of God. Can anything be more detestable than this madness in man, who, finding God a hundred times both in his body and his soul, makes his excellence in this respect a pretext for denying that there is a God? He

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"The foundation of the Christian's peace is everlasting; it is what no time, no change, can destroy. It will remain when the body dies; it will remain when the mountains depart and the hills shall be removed, and when the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll. The fountain of his comfort shall never be diminished, and the stream shall never be dried. His comfort and joy is a living

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Sure I am, it is better to be sick, providing Christ come to thy bed-side, and draw aside the curtains and say, "Courage, I am thy salvation.” That to enjoy health, being lusty and strong, and never to be visited by God. Worthy and dear lady, in the strength of Christ, fight and overcome. You are now alone, but you may have, for the seeking, three always in your company, the Father, Son and Holy

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Water in the glass looks clear, but set it on the fire, and the scum boils up. In prosperity, a man seems to be humble and thankful, the water looks clear; but set this man a little on the fire of affliction, and the scum boils up, much impatience and unbelief appear. [Thomas Watson]

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