1 Peter 1:7 That the trial of your faith This is the principal end which God has in afflictive providences, to try the faith of his people; so the fai...
Luke 12:49 I am come to send fire on the earth Meaning either the Gospel, which is as fire, that gives both light and heat, warms the hearts of God's ...
Job 23:10 But he knoweth the way that I take This he seems to say in a way of solace to himself, comforting and contenting himself, that though he cou...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 10. For thou, O God, hast proved us. He proved his Israel with sore trials. David had his temptations. All the saints must go to the ...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 6. What a contrast between the vain words of man, and the pure words of Jehovah. Man's words are yea and nay, but the Lord's promises...
1 Peter 4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial, &c.] By which may be meant either the destruction of Jerusalem, which was at ha...
Chapter 11:2? Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood...
?EXPOSITION Verse 23. Search me, O God, and know my heart. David is no accomplice with traitors. He has disowned them in set form, and now he appeals ...
Letter XIII. (for 341.)Letter XIII. (for 341.) Coss. Marcellinus, Probinus; Praef. Longinus; Indict. xiv; Easter-day, xiii Kal. Maii, xxiv Pharmuthi; ...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 3. Thou hast proved mine heart. Like Peter, David uses the argument, Thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I love thee. It is a ...
Homily IV.Homily IV. An exhortation to the people respecting fortitude and patience, from the examples of Job and the Three Children in Babylon. The H...
Chapter 3 3:1 And 1 I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto a carnal, [even] as unto babes in Christ. (1) Having declared...
THE CROWNING TEST AND TRIUMPH OF FAITH The first words of this lesson give the keynote for its meaning. 'God did prove Abraham'; the strange comman...
Sermon 28. JESUS CHRIST THE ONLY FOUNDATION. Isaiah Xxviii. 16, 17. Behold, I lay in Zion, for a foundation, a stone, a tried stone, a precious cor...
Chapter?1The apostle describes the persons to whom he writes, and salutes them (v.?1, v.?2), blesses God for their regeneration to a lively hope of et...
Homily on Habib the Martyr Homily on Habib the Martyr Composed by Mar Jacob.(1) Habib the martyr, clad in flame, hath called to me out of the fire, ...
JOSHUA (3) Son of Jehozadak (Haggai 1:1,12,14; 2:2,4; Zechariah 3:1,3,6,8,9; 6:11 form (b)) and high priest in Jerusalem, called Jeshua in Ezra-Nehemi...
Much more precious than gold that periaheth.?1 Peter i. 7. ?ETER is very fond of this word precious. He uses it more frequently than all the other ...
CHAPTER XX. HYMNS FROM BENEATH THE CROSS. When gathering clouds around I view, And days are dark, and friends are few, On Him I lean, who not in ...
The Book of 1?PeterChapter 1Verses:1:1To the sojourners - Upon earth, the Christians, chiefly those of Jewish extraction. Scattered - Long ago driven ...