THE TENTH BOOK. HAVING IN THE Note books SPOKEN OF HIMSELF BEFORE HIS RECEIVING THE RITE OF BAPTISM, IN THIS AUGUSTINE CONFESSES WHAT HE THEN WAS ? BU...
Chapter?3This chapter is one of the most excellent in all this book, both for argument to persuade us to be religious and for directions therein. I. W...
Chapter?15In this chapter, we have our Lord Jesus, as the great Prophet teaching, as the great Physician healing, and as the great Shepherd of the she...
Chapter?2In the close of the foregoing chapter we had an account of the first disciples whom Jesus called, Andrew and Peter, Philip and Nathanael. The...
Chapter?15In this chapter we have a solemn treaty between God and Abram concerning a covenant that was to be established between them. In the former c...
Chapter?3We now return to Jerusalem, and must again hear what God has to say to her, I. By way of reproof and threatening, for the abundance of wicked...
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?26The narrative of the death and sufferings of Christ is more particularly and fully recorded by all the four evangelists than any part of his...
Chapter?40At this chapter begins the latter part of the prophecy of this book, which is not only divided from the former by the historical chapters th...
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 20. OF PRAYER--A PERPETUAL EXERCISE OF FAITH. THE DAILY BENEFITS DERIVED FROM IT. The principal divisions of this chapter are,--I. Connection...
Chapter?17The charge of this chapter is, I. Concerning the purity and perfection of all those animals that were offered in sacrifice (v.?1). II. Conce...
Homily XXVI.Homily XXVI. ACTS XII. 1, 2.-Now at that time Herod the King stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the Church. And he killed James t...
ElucidationsElucidationsIDisciple of the holy Peter, p. 551.The early use of the originals of this liturgy in the Alexandrian patriarchate accounts fo...
Chapter?1In this chapter we have, I. An introduction, or preface, making way for, and leading to, what is principally designed by the apostle (v.?1-4)...
Chapter?3In this chapter we have the further preparation of the prophet for the work to which God called him. I. His eating the roll that was presente...
Chapter?27It is a very affecting story which is recorded in this chapter concerning the sufferings and death of our Lord Jesus. Considering the thing ...
Chapter?3In the foregoing chapter we had Samuel a young priest, though by birth a Levite only, for he ministered before the Lord in a linen ephod; in ...
Chapter?3The battle between Joab and Abner did not end the controversy between the two houses of Saul and David, but it is in this chapter working tow...
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...