John Cheap, the Chapman's Library. Vol. 2: Religious and Scriptural The Scottish Chap Literature of Last Century, Classified

What fatal news is this I hear? On earth who shall my standard bear? For Lag who was my champion brave, Is dead and now laid in his grave, The want of him is a great grief, He w...

_First_, I would have you to know what is here attributed and ascribed to Christ: It is not to be understood absolutely of him as God, but officially as he is Mediator and Redee...

In general, a saint, when he is near to God, has all the fulness of his heart breaking out into holy language; he pours out his whole self before his God and his Father; all the...

Lastly, That future state of glory must be blessed indeed where we shall be ever near to God, even to his seat, and have no sorrows to tell him of. If it be so delightful a thin...

Human misery is to divine mercy, as a black soil to a sparkling diamond; or as a sable cloud to the sun-beams, Psalm viii. 4.--_Lord, what is man, that thou art mindful of him?_

The officers collected their men, and placed themselves each at the head of those of his own district. Sir Robert Hamilton placed the foot in the centre, in three ranks. A compa...

There was a certain woman in Rutherglen, about two miles from Glasgow, who, by the instigation of some, both ministers and professors, was persuaded to advice her husband to go...

Now Moses and Aaron went as the Lord commanded them, and told the people all that the Lord had spoken unto Moses, and did wonders before them. And Moses and Aaron went in and sa...

O Lord, thou art great, wonderful, and holy. Thou art exalted far above all blessing and praise which can ever be afforded to thee by the angels of light; yet such is thy condes...

At present, the way of providence in general is dark and mysterious. There is a depth in it, for which we have no line. There are many seals on it, not fit as yet to be opened....

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the...

Despairing sinner! Thou lookest on thy right hand, and on thy left, saying, “Who will shew us any good?” Thou art looking over all thy duties and professions to patch a righteou...

19. After this, in the year 1682, he went to Ireland again, and came to the house of William Steel, in Glenwharry, in the county of Antrim; he enquired at Mrs. Steel if she want...

Isaac being restored to his parents by the command of him who first bestowed him, he was the comfort of his mother in her old age, who, being arrived at the age of one hundred a...

‘A help,’ there is her _fallness_; ‘A meet-help,’ there is her _fitness_. The angels were too much above him; the inferior creatures too much below him; he could not step up to...

There was in Ayr, before he came to it, an aged man a minister of the town, called Porterfield, the man was judged no bad man, for his personal inclinations, but so easy a dispo...

But, observe for what Stephen prayed. “Lord Jesus receive my spirit!” This is the prayer of faith, commending the immortal spirit to the covenant care of Jesus. The spirit does...

When Lewis XIII. king of France, made war upon the Protestants there, because of their religion, the city of St. Jean d’ Angely, was by him and his royal army besieged, and brou...

In Beith once dwelt a worthy wife, Of whom brave Chaucer mention makes She lived a licentious life, And namely in venereal acts But death did come for all her cracks; When years...

Perth, in the meantime, having embraced the Reformed religion, added to the rage which agitated the Queen against the Protestants, and she commanded the provost (Patrick Ruthven...

It is to be observed, that the Scripture makes mention of three Judases; the first is Judas Maccabeus; the second Judas the son of Joseph, the reputed father of our Lord; and th...

The Life of John Knox. The Life of John Welch. The Life and Prophecies of Alexander Peden. The Life and Prophecies of Donald Cargill. The Battles of Drumclog and Bothwell Bridge...

6 Thy praise shall still employ my breath, since thou hast mark’d my way to heaven, Nor will I run the road to death, and waste the blessings thou hast given.

When Joseph to the land of Egypt came, One Potiphar a man of noted fame, Bought him with silver and preferred him straight Making him steward of his whole estate. On whom his mi...

‘These news,’ said the Laird, after a long pause while his eyes followed the courser over the plains of Aven--‘these news are to me as life from the dead. I have a mind to meet...

On the fortieth day after the resurrection, our Lord Jesus, knowing that his time was now come to depart from this world, and to pass hence to his Father, taking with him the ho...

Of WIFE OF BEITH I make an end, And do these lines with this conclude, Let none their lives in sin now spend, But watch and pray, be doing good, Despondent souls do not despair,...