Chapter?42If the book of Psalms be, as some have styled it, a mirror or looking-glass of pious and devout affections, this psalm in particular deserve...
Chapter?25Ever since David?s time Jerusalem had been a celebrated place, beautiful for situation and the joy of the whole earth: while the book of psa...
CHAPTER 20. OF PRAYER--A PERPETUAL EXERCISE OF FAITH. THE DAILY BENEFITS DERIVED FROM IT. The principal divisions of this chapter are,--I. Connection...
Chapter?7Here is, I. The law of the trespass-offering (v.?1-7), with some further directions concerning the burnt-offering and the meat-offering (v.?8...
Chapter?17God was, in the foregoing chapter, reckoning with the people of Judah, and bringing ruin upon them for their treachery in breaking covenant ...
PART IV. THE NATURE, DECREES, AND WORKS OF GOD. CHAPTER I. THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD. In contemplating the words and acts of God, as in contemplating ...
Chapter?22This chapter is a continuation of Christ?s discourses in the temple, two or three days before he died. His discourses then are largely recor...
CHAPTER 45 Isaiah 45:1-25 . THE SUBJECT OF THE DELIVERANCE BY CYRUS IS FOLLOWED UP. Isaiah 45:1-7 . These seven verses should have been app...
Chapter?42The prophet seems here to launch out yet further into the prophecy of the Messiah and his kingdom under the type of Cyrus; and, having the g...
Chapter?1The narrative which this evangelist gives us (or rather God by him) of the life of Christ begins earlier than either Matthew or Mark. We have...
Chapter?18We have an account in this chapter of another interview between God and Abraham, probably within a few days after the former, as the reward ...
CHAPTER II. DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY. In the nature of the one God there are three eternal distinctions which are represented to us under the figure ...
Chapter?14We have, in this chapter, a further account of the progress of the gospel, by the ministry of Paul and Barnabas among the Gentiles; it goes ...
CHAPTER IV. THE WORKS OF GOD; OR THE EXECUTION OF THE DECREES. SECTION I.?CREATION. I. Definition Op Creation. By creation we mean that free act ...
Chapter?4We left Christ newly baptized, and owned by a voice from heaven and the descent of the Holy Ghost upon him. Now, in this chapter, we have, I....
Chapter?119This is a psalm by itself, like none of the rest; it excels them all, and shines brightest in this constellation. It is much longer than an...
Chapter?5We have in the gospels a faithful record of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, Acts.?1:1 . These two are interwoven, because what ...
Chapter?16It is some rebuke to Barnabas that after he left Paul we hear no more of him, of what he did or suffered for Christ. But Paul, as he was rec...
Chapter?24Marriages and funerals are the changes of families, and the common news among the inhabitants of the villages. In the foregoing chapter we h...
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...