Our Surrender to Jesus. ?They gave their own selves to the Lord.'?2 Cob. viiL 6. IN the surrender of Jesus for me, I have the chief element of what...
Overview - Jeremiah 50 1?The judgment of Babylon and the redemption of Israel. Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeJeremiah 50:31??(King James Version)Beho...
Overview - 2?Chronicles 6 1?Solomon, having blessed the people, blesses God. 12?Solomon's prayer in the consecration of the temple, upon the brasen sc...
Overview - Psalms 71 1?David, in confidence of faith, and experience of God's favour, prays both for himself, and against the enemies of his soul. 14?...
Jacob the Teacher on EdessaA Canticle of Mar(1) Jacob the Teacher on Edessa.(2) Edessa sent to Christ by an epistle to come to her and enlighten her. ...
Letter CCCXLV.Letter CCCXLV. Libanius to Basil. IT is, I think, more needful for me to defend myself for not having begun to write to you long ago, th...
Overview - Ezekiel 38 1?The army, 8?and malice of Gog. 14?God's judgment against him. Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeEzekiel 38:23??(King James Versi...
Overview - Psalms 39 1?David's care of this thoughts. 4?The consideration of the brevity and vanity of life; 7?the reverence of God's judgments, 10?...
Overview - Ezekiel 20 1?God refuses to be consulted by the elders of Israel. 4?He shews the story of their rebellions in Egypt, 10?in the wilderness,...
MansionAbiding place.Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many MANSIONS: if it were not so,...
Jonah 4:9 And God said to Jonah, dost thou well to be angry for the gourd? &c.] Or, art thou very angry for it? as the Targum: no mention is made of t...
LETTER I. To Mr. B****. May 1, 1780. My Dear Sir, I BLAME myself, and ask your pardon, for not writing sooner. My confinement occasioned rat so man...
Overview - Psalms 102 1?The prophet in his prayer makes a grievous complaint. 12?He takes comfort in the eternity, and mercy of God. 18?The mercies of...
Chapter 3838:10? I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. grave Heb. Sheo...
ChasteUntouched; undefiled.Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. For I am jealous over you with godly jeal...
Overview - Job 9 1?Job acknowledges God's justice. 22?Man's innocency is not to be condemned by afflictions. Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeJob 9:28??...
Psalms 88:4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit With the dead, with them that are worthy of death, with malefactors that are judicially p...
Joel 2:27 And ye shall know that I [am] in the midst of Israel The presence of God among his people shall be so manifest, the tokens of it so clear, t...
Chapter 8888:1 A Song [or] Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath a Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD God of m...
I am not lying (ou pseudomai). The list seems so absurd and foolish that Paul takes solemn oath about it (cf. Acts 1:23 ). For the doxology see Rom...