Chapter?22This chapter finishes the history of Ahab?s reign. It was promised in the close of the foregoing chapter that the ruin of his house should n...
Chapter?2We left Job honourably acquitted upon a fair trial between God and Satan concerning him. Satan had leave to touch, to touch and take, all he ...
CHAPTER 4. PENITENCE, AS EXPLAINED IN THE SOPHISTICAL JARGON OF THE SCHOOLMEN, WIDELY DIFFERENT FROM THE PURITY REQUIRED BY THE GOSPEL. OF CONFESSION...
Chapter?19Though in the history hitherto this evangelist seems industriously to have declined the recording of such passages as had been related by th...
Chapter?6Nothing that occurred in the quiet and peaceable times of Israel is recorded; the forty years? rest after the conquest of Jabin is passed ove...
Chapter?1This evangelist begins with the account of Christ?s parentage and birth, the ancestors from whom he descended, and the manner of his entry in...
Chapter?3The story of this chapter is perhaps as sad a story (all things considered) as any we have in all the Bible. In the foregoing chapters we hav...
SERMON XXXVII. PREACHED UPON TRINITY SUNDAY. 1 Peter i. 17. And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to eve...
Chapter?8In this chapter we have, I. Christ?s evading the snare which the Jews laid for him, in bringing to him a woman taken in adultery (v.?1-11). I...
Chapter?4It was, more than any thing else, the glory of the land of Israel, that it was Emmanuel?s land (Isa.?8:8 ), not only the place of his birth, ...
Chapter?22All the evangelists, whatever they omit, give us a particular account of the death and resurrection of Christ, because he died for our sins ...
Chapter?23In the foregoing chapter, we had our Saviour?s discourses with the scribes and Pharisees; here we have his discourse concerning them, or rat...
Chapter?10We have in this chapter an account of the conquest of the kings and kingdoms of the southern part of the land of Canaan, as, in the next cha...
Homily LXIV.Homily LXIV. John xi. 41, 42.-Jesus lifted up His eyes, and said, Father, I thank Thee that Thou hast heard Me; and I knew that Thou heare...
The Pilgrim's Progress, PART THE FIRST. CHAP. I. The Author's imprisonment and dream?Christian, convinced of sin, flies Jrom the wrath to come, and...
Then Christian went on till he came to the house of the Interpreter, where he knocked over and over; at last cue came to the door, and asked, Who was...
Chapter?18Hitherto this evangelist has recorded little of the history of Christ, only so far as was requisite to introduce his discourses; but now tha...
Chapter?6In this chapter we have, I. The discontent that was among the disciples about the distribution of the public charity (v.?1). II. The election...
Chapter?2In this chapter, we have the history of our Saviour?s infancy, where we find how early he began to suffer, and that in him the word of righte...
Chapter?21 Verse 1 Note, 1. Even the hearts of men are in God?s hand, and not only their goings, as he had said, ch.?20:24 . God can change men?s mind...