Once more, It would be profitable to recollect the best parts of our lives, and compare them with what we now are. Think, backsliding Christian, what an effect those sacred truths have had upon your

The question is not concerning any secret persuasions in the mind of man, or any secret purpose in the mind of God; but simply this, Do the Holy Scriptures, which form the statute-book of heaven,

Some good people have contracted a strange prejudice against the doctrines of the gospel, accounting them dry and uninteresting matters. They like experimental religion the best, they tell us. But I do not understand the

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