Departing from God, and indulging ourselves in sinning against him, is a kind of exchange, but it is a foolish one; it is an exchange of liberty for drudgery and slavery, of peace of conscience

Conversion is a marriage wherein (with reverence be it spoken) Christ resigns up himself, with all he is and has, to us, and we resign ourselves, with all we are and have, to him. Such

In the last paper, I considered the manner in which the duty of prayer is attended to as one considerable reason of spiritual declension; in this I shall propose to consideration another cause, as contributing

In the last paper it was supposed that one cause to which declensions in religion might be imputed was a disregard to the word of God; in this I shall attempt to prove that another

It is a matter of complaint too common, as well as too well founded, that the bulk of Christians in the present age are very deficient in spirituality, and come far short of the primitive

[A Letter to Mr. H. Muir, Glasgow] Dear Sir, I greatly rejoice in the establishment of your Society. If many were formed, there would be no need of any apology to those which are formed

I do not wish the following remarks to supersede any other answer which may enter more fully into the subject. All I have to offer will be a few hints from my own experience. In

“1. Ought we to ascribe any part of our conduct which is not absolutely sinful to the agency of Satan? There appears to have been nothing ‘absolutely sinful’ in the conduct of the Corinthians towards

“How may a man ascertain his election of God to the ministry of the gospel? And what are sufficient qualifications for that important office?” I conceive an answer to the latter part of the question

“Ought a wicked man to pray?” The declaimer who denied this position seems to have had an eye to those passages of Scripture which declare “the sacrifice and way of the wicked to be an