Category: Religion/Spirituality
the company on Mount Tabor, with the dying Stephen, or with Saul on the road to Damascus--wherever it may have to act, and whatever it may be called to do, to convict, to cheer, or to transfigure--to smite to the earth the persecutor, to give triumph to the martyr, or to confo...
This is the mystery of the Divine Bridegroom. All human tales or fables fall short of this, let the imagination that wrought them up be as fervent as it may. This is the mystery...
3. ix. This chapter shows us the new condition of man in the new world,x. xi. These chapters unfold great portions of the history of the new world, the springs, workings, progress, and maturity of evil, leaving or rendering the earth such a place a...
6. ix. This shall be made good in its season, for the elder shall serve theyounger--the promise is yea and amen. But now, and from the days of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat of the house of David of the lineage of Jacob, Esau or Edom has been in revolt...
10. xxix. The minuteness with which he remembers it tells us with whatfondness he had embraced it. The eloquence with which he describes it (and nothing can exceed that) betrays with what fervour of heart he had lingered over it, in the day of its...
8. chapter xlvii. For, "what shall the receiving of them be, but life fromthe dead?" asks the apostle, tracing, under the Spirit, the story of Israel. Rom. xi. "If the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of...
2. iii. Can He then deny His own remedy to the sinner, cursed under the"The Lord shut him in." The hand of the Lord imparted its own strength and security to Noah's condition. It is not too bold to say, that all within the door of the ark were as s...
7. xv. Jacob now will have the burial, such a burial as is worthy of theAll this shows us another Jacob than what we once knew him to be. He is now partaker of God's holiness; his mind and character are in consistency with the call of God. He is a s...
4. xxiv. I now propose to take it up from thence, and follow it on throughThere is, however, but little in his history, and little in his character. In some respects this is no matter; for, whether much or little, his name is in the recollection of us...
5. xxiii. According to this, the apostate days of Solomon are marked bydisobedience to this very thing (1 Kings xi.); and afterwards, no real recovery to God could be admitted, without a return to the observance of this principle in their marriages...
1. v. So when it had business to do (though of different characters) withthe company on Mount Tabor, with the dying Stephen, or with Saul on the road to Damascus--wherever it may have to act, and whatever it may be called to do, to convict, to cheer,...
9. iii. In the fervent labourings of the spirit within, he exercisedhimself in it every day. And so should we. We are to dread the Laodicean state, satisfaction with present condition or attainment. The Laodicean was not a Pharisee, or a self-ri...