The Last Judgment Matt. 7:21–29 Our Lord, in drawing to the close of his discourse, is unusually solemn and impressive. He anticipates the last judgment, and places his hearers before the great tribunal. The sum

Resisting Evil Matt. 5:38–42 In the judicial law of Israel, it had been enacted as follows:—“If men strive and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief

Trial of Spirits 1 John 4:1 The predicted enmity between the seed of the woman and of the serpent has been peculiarly fulfilled in the times of the gospel. No sooner was the Christian church

Christ Washing the Disciples’ Feet John 13 This significant action, so full of kindness and condescension on the part of our Saviour, is recorded for our example. Happy shall we be, if we truly copy

John’s Testimony to Jesus John 3:22–36 While John and Jesus were both baptizing at a little distance from each other, there arose questions between some of the disciples of the former and the Jews about

Such as Isa. 43:25. The sense of this passage, like most others, requires to be ascertained from the context. God is addressing Jacob, or Israel, as a nation, and reminding them of their great depravity;

Consider the inefficacy of all human means for the removal of these evils. The miseries produced in the earth by discord are so serious, that it is become the necessary study of the thinking part

The doctrine of atonement by the death of Christ is one of the great and distinguishing principles of the gospel, and its importance is acknowledged by most denominations of professing Christians: yet there are some

Mediocrity in Wisdom and Virtue Satirized Eccles. 7:15–19 There have been various opinions on the advice of the wise man, “Be not righteous over much,” &c. Great numbers have produced it with a view to

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