Directions how to hear Sermons. (Luke 8:18)
Luke 8:18, "Take heed, therefore, how ye hear." The occasion of our Lord's giving this caution, was this: Perceiving that much people were gathered together to hear him out of every city, and knowing (for he is God, and knoweth all things) that many, if not most of them, would be hearers only, and not doers of the word; he spake to them by a parable, wherein, under the similitude of a sower tha..
2009. 10. 6.
Christians, Temples of the living God. (2 Cor. 6:16)
2 Corinthians 6:16, "Ye are the Temple of the living God." Isaiah, speaking of the glory of gospel days, said, "Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, besides thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him." Chap. 64:4. Could a world lying in the wicked one, be really convinced of this, they would need no other motive to induce them to renounce ..
2009. 10. 6.
Christ, the Believer's Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification,~
Christ, the Believer's Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification, and Redemption. (1 Cor. 1:30) 1 Corinthians 1:30, "But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption." Of all the verses in the book of God, this which I have now read to you, is, I believe, one of the most comprehensive: what glad tidings does it bring to beli..
2009. 10. 6.
Christ the only Rest for the Weary and Heavy Laden. (Matt. 11:28)
Matthew 11:28, "Come unto me, all ye that are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced? There is much of it in name and show, but little of it in the heart and conversation; indeed, if going to church, and to the sacrament, or, if our being called after th..
2009. 9. 26.
Christ the Believer's Husband. (Isaiah 44:5)
Isaiah 54:5, "For thy Maker is thy Husband." Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ. Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of any man living, fully to conceive, the nearness and dearness of that relation, in which they ..
2009. 9. 18.
Britain's Mercies, and Britain's Duty.
Britain's Mercies, and Britain's Duty. Preached at Philadelphia, on Sunday, August 24, 1746. and occasioned by the Suppression of the late unnatural Rebellion. (Psalm 105:45) Psalm 55:45 "That they might observe his statutes and keep his laws." Men, brethren, and fathers, and all ye to whom I am about to preach the kingdom of God, I suppose you need not be informed, that being indispensably obl..
2009. 9. 8.