Buckler [N] A portable shield ( 2?Samuel 22:31 ; 1?Chronicles 5:18 ). A shield surrounding the person; the targe or round form; used once figurati...
Sanctuary [N] [E]In the Old Testament the word miqdas [v'D.qim] (from qds, holy, implying a distinction between space that is sacred versus profane) ...
Humility [N] [T] [E]Biblical humility is grounded in the character of God. The Father stoops down to help the poor and needy ( Psalm 113:4-9 ; 138:6-...
Prayer [N] [T] [B] [S]is converse with God; the intercourse of the soul with God, not in contemplation or meditation, but in direct address to him. Pr...
Peace [N] [T] The Meaning of Peace. In English, the word peace conjures up a passive picture, one showing an absence of civil disturbance or hostiliti...
Providence of God The word providence comes from the Latin providentia (Gk. pronoia [provnoia]) and means essentially foresight or making provision be...
Money [N] [T] [E] [S]A variety of monetary systems are represented in the Bible, corresponding to the political powers that dominated the cultures rep...
Elder [N] [E] [S]In both the Old and New Testaments, the term elder indicates one of advanced age (Heb. zaqen [eqz]; Gk. presbyteros [presbuvtero]) wh...
CHAPTER 6. REDEMPTION FOR MAN LOST TO BE SOUGHT IN CHRIST. The parts of this chapter are, I. The excellence of the doctrine of Christ the Redeemer--a...
IX. COMMON AND SPECIAL GRACE The distinction between common and special grace is closely connected with the Calvinistic doctrine of election and pre...
Ezekiel, Theology of Ezekiel and his contemporaries confronted what for the Israelites was the most traumatic possible challenge to their faith: the d...
Create, Creation Who created and sustains the universe? Why was it created? What is the nature of the Creator-creature relationship? These are the sor...
Homily XXVI.Homily XXVI. Hebrews xi. 20-22.-By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. By faith, Jacob when he was a dying bles...
Ill THE EXISTING ANARCHY Our Lord's references to the Kingdom of God reveal it in four ways. First He spoke of it as existing. The fact of the Divin...
God [N] [T] [E] [S]The Old Testament. In the Old Testament the plural form elohim [yihl\a] became the favored generic term for God. This development i...
OF THE MANIFESTATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE COVENANT OF GRACE. I AM now come to the dawn of grace to fallen man, to the breakings forth and appli...
CHAPTER 3. REGENERATION BY FAITH. OF REPENTANCE. This chapter is divided into five parts. I. The title of the chapter seems to promise a treatise on ...
Preached October 9, 1757, at the Opening of a New Place for Worship, in Carter-lane, St Olave's-ftreet, Southwark. Exodus XX. 24. -In all places, ...
NOTES NOTE A, Chap. VI. p. 75. Jnst this day I have been meeting a very earnest lady missionary from India. She confesses and mourns the lack of pra...
OF CREATION IN GENERAL. Having considered the internal and eternal acts of the divint. mind, I proceed to consider the external acts of God. I shall ...