SERMON XXIII. THE PHILOSOPHICAL NECESSITY OF REPENTANCE. Luke xiii. 3, 5.?Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. The reference in this dec...
Letter CCXLIII.(1) Letter CCXLIII.(1) To the bishops of Italy and Gaul concerning the condition and confusion of the Churches.I. To his brethren trul...
Chapter?4An instance of the wisdom God granted to Solomon we had in the close of the foregoing chapter. In this we have an account of his wealth and p...
Chapter?34The iniquities and calamities of God?s Israel had been largely and pathetically lamented before, in this book. Now in this chapter the sheph...
Chapter?33This chapter relates to the same events as the foregoing chapter, the distress of Judah and Jerusalem by Sennacherib?s invasion and their de...
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.?Psalm xci. 1. IHAVE read this verse, but I desir...
Chapter?5In this chapter we have, I. A prediction of the troubles and distresses of the Jewish nation (v.?1). II. A promise of the Messiah, and of his...
Book II.Book II.-------- Chapter I.-Power of Habit.When the day dawned which had been fixed for the discussion with Simon, Peter, rising at the first ...
ST. PAUL AT MELITA. And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat. Secure in his pro...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 6. Contrasts frequently bring out the truth vividly, and here the church sets forth the creature confidences of carnal men in contras...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 10. The God of my mercy shall prevent me. God who is the giver and fountain of all the undeserved goodness I have received, will go b...
There the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass th...
?EXPOSITION Verse 14. Here we have the Lord himself speaking of his own chosen one. Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver hi...
123 Isaiah xxi. 11. P.M. 1?What of the night, watchman, what of the night? The wintry gale sweeps by, The thick shadows fall, and the night bird'...
Chapter?5Eliphaz, in the foregoing chapter, for the making good of his charge against Job, had vouched a word from heaven, sent him in a vision. In th...
II. THE KING. 1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel...
1. HOWEVER, Florus contrived another way to oblige the Jews to begin the war, and sent to Cestius, and accused the Jews falsely of revolting [from ...
Chapter?9The prophet in this chapter (according to the directions given him, ch.?3:10, ch.?3:11 ) saith to the righteous, It shall be well with thee, ...
Chapter?4David was a preacher, a royal preacher, as well as Solomon; many of his psalms are doctrinal and practical as well as devotional; the greates...
7 ANY are the persons who have envied Isaiah, to whom personally the messenger from the throne said, Thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin is purg...