Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

The Morning of Spiritual Youth Improved, in the Prospect of Old Age and Its Infirmities Being a Literal and Spiritual Paraphrase on the Twelfth Chapter of Ecclesiastes. In a Series of Letters.

_I need make no apology far publishing the following Letters_, _as the Subject was first delivered in several Discourses_, _and is now by the particular desire of many friends_, _published to the Church in the form of familiar Letters—appearing in the homely dress of plain spe...

Chapters

7. Part 7

Another evil day we may find in this dark state, when so sadly shut up, is the fewness of them that preach all the truth as it is in Jesus: Hence the Church in her sad state ran...

6. Part 6

Now, my dear friend, I can assure you that I always feel peace and joy in believing these precious truths for myself; they are for such poor sinners as I have described; but fai...

4. Part 4

The six days work of Creation was to open to the eye of faith his works very gradually, that like the stars of a night, they might be seen one by one. The six days work, and the...

3. Part 3

Remember, with _diligence_; for as we abound in faith the Apostle says, We are to abound in all diligence. The pious Psalmist declares, His heart and spirit made a diligent sear...

2. Part 2

I need not tell you I am no scholar, I wish I was; but the passage must be read in the plural, according to the testimony of most Hebrew scholars—_Remember now thy_ CREATORS. Th...

1. Part 1

_I need make no apology far publishing the following Letters_, _as the Subject was first delivered in several Discourses_, _and is now by the particular desire of many friends_,...

5. Part 5

The grand means of keeping up this wonderful frame, is a point worthy our attention; for this purpose it is furnished with the powers of nutrition. _Teeth_, the foremost thin an...

8. Part 8

I have been just reflecting a little on that glorious Title and Office of our most blessed Lord, a _Surety_: the longer I live the more I feel the need of him as such; the bonda...