“Let patience have her perfect work that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”—James 1:4. We sometimes speak of the troubles of the present state, and are ready to sink under the complicated afflictions
Matt. 7:7–12 From negative religion, our Lord proceeds to enforce that which is positive—prayer to God, and justice to men. We have had directions already concerning the duty of prayer, and are now furnished with
In former times liberty of conscience and the right of private judgment in matters of religion were denied both by ecclesiastics and politicians. Of late they have been very generally admitted, and much has been
After what several able writers have produced of late years upon this practice, particularly the late Dr. Stennett on the Parable of the Sower, it might have been expected that this evil would at least
“By love serve one another.”—Gal. 5:13. My brethren, having been requested on this solemn occasion to address a word of exhortation to both pastor and people, I have chosen a subject equally suitable for both.
“By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin
With the idea of all Divine truth bearing an intimate relation to Christ agrees that notable phrase in Eph. 4:21, “The truth as it is in Jesus.” To believe the truth concerning Jesus is to
In proportion, however, as the Scriptures are plain, and easy to be understood, must be our criminality, if we be endowed with common sense, in not understanding them. If the way of salvation is so
An advocate, especially one that undertakes the cause of sinners, requires to have an interest with the Judge; to be interested for the sinner; while pleading for him, not to palliate, but condemn his sin;
God abhors the occasional exercises of self-confidence in his own people, and still more the habitual self-complacency of hypocrites. I remember a professor of religion, a member of one of our churches, who for a