Chapter?51 The psalmist prays for mercy, humbly confessing and lamenting his sins. (1-6) He pleads for pardon, that he may promote the glory of God a...
He that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman; likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.? 1 Cor. vii. ...
'Being made free from sin, ye became bond-servants of righteousness. Being made free from sin, ye have your fruit unto sanctifieation.'?Kom. vi. 18, 2...
CHAPTER III. THE DECREES OF GOD. I. Definition Of Decrees. By the decrees of God we mean that eternal plan by which God has rendered certain all t...
CHAPTER 2. MAN NOW DEPRIVED OF FREEDOM OF WILL, AND MISERABLY ENSLAVED. Having in the first chapter treated of the fall of man, and the corruption of...
Philippians 1:27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the Gospel of Christ Or behave as citizens worthy of the Gospel; for not so much their o...
Isaiah 26:2 Open ye the gates Not of Jerusalem, literally understood, nor of heaven; rather of the New Jerusalem, whose gates are described, ( Revelat...
2 Timothy 2:11 It is a faithful saying This may refer either to what goes before, that all things, all reproaches and sufferings, through the ministra...
1 Timothy 4:3 Forbidding to marry Which points out not the Encratites, Montanists, and Manichees, who spoke against marriage; but the Papists, who for...
Ephesians 6:24 Grace [be] with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ, &c.] Christ is the object of love, and a lovely object he is: he is to be lov...
Proverbs 16:30 He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things Or perverse or contrary things F18; he shuts his eyes, that his thoughts might not be dis...
Job 34:5 For Job hath said, I am righteous Not in express words, but what amounted to it: no doubt he was a righteous man in an evangelic sense, being...
Philemon 1:10 I beseech thee for my son Onesimus Now he comes to the request itself, and mentions by name the person on whose account he makes it, and...
John 3:15 That whosoever believeth in him Whether Jew or Gentile, a greater, or a lesser sinner, and of whatsoever state and condition, age or sex; an...
Mark 8:38 Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me As suffering, crucified, and put to death; things he had been speaking of before: whoever through...
Jeremiah 50:33 Thus saith the Lord of hosts This is a preface to another prophecy, detached from the former, respecting the redemption of the Lord's p...
Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering Either in the grace or doctrine of faith, or in the profession of both; (S...
LIBERTY lib'-er-ti (deror, rachabh; eleutheria): The opposite of servitude or bondage, hence, applicable to captives or slaves set free from oppressi...
John Handson was curate of St. James's church, Bury ?t. Edmunds, in Suffolk, and brought into trouble for nonconformity. He refused to wear the surpl...
1 John 1:4 And these things write we unto you Concerning the deity and eternity of Christ, the Word and concerning the truth of his humanity, and the ...