Chapter 66:2 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the a balances together! (a To know whether I complain without just caus...
Epistle IV.Epistle IV.To the Presbyters and Deacons.(1) Argument.-Cyprian Exhorts His Clergy from His Place of Retirement, that in His Absence They S...
XIV ? On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family THE family may fairly be considered, one would think, an ultimate human institutio...
?EXPOSITION Verse 11. I said in my haste, All men are liars. In a modified sense the expression will bear justification, even though hastily uttered, ...
There is a subject before your eyes of vast importance. I mean the subject of religious zeal. It is a subject like many others in religion, most sad...
Chapter?8In this and the following chapter Paul is exhorting and directing the Corinthians about a particular work of charity-to relieve the necessiti...
CHAPTER XV. Personal Work?Three Kinds of Church Services? Church Members?Individual Experience?One hiquirer at a Time?Those who lack Assurance? Back...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 3. Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me. Before the enemy comes to close quarters the Lord can pu...
Chapter 1414:1 Him 1 that is weak in the faith a receive ye, [but] not to b doubtful disputations. (1) Now he shows how we ought to behave ourselves t...
The common salvation.?Jude 3. The common faith.?Titus i. 4. JUDE was probably one of Christ's brothers, and a man of position and influence in the ...
Sermon XLIII. [XCIII. Ben.]Sermon XLIII. [XCIII. Ben.] On the words of the gospel, Matt. Xxv. I,then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten v...
S. AUGUSTINE TO CONSENTIUS: AGAINST LYING. From the Retractations, Book ii. Chap. 60. Then* also I wrote a Book against Lying, the occasion of whic...
Chapter?10Hitherto we have been in the porch or preface to the proverbs, here they begin. They are short but weighty sentences; most of them are disti...
THE SIN OF OMISSION. Matthew Tit. 20.?The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet? The narrative fr...
THE CHILDREN FOR CHRIST. Twenty-second Day. Training. 'Train up a child in the way he should go ; and even when he is old, he will not depart from...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 5. In due season the Lord will hear his elect ones, who cry day and night unto him, and though he bear long with their oppressors, ye...
Chapter?9Solomon, in this chapter, for a further proof of the vanity of this world, gives us four observations which he had made upon a survey of the ...
XXVII. One Saying From Three Men. The wicked hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved.? Psalm X. fl. Because He is at my right hand, I shall n...
Against Lying. Against Lying. To Consentius[Contra Mendacium.]Translated by the Rev. H. Browne, M.a.From the Retractations, Book II. Chap. 60. Then(1...
II. NO FRUIT Every branch in Me that beareth not fruit, He taketh away. John xv. 2. The one object with which a husbandman plants a vine, and the vi...