Chapter?32Still we are upon the destruction of Pharaoh and Egypt, which is wonderfully enlarged upon, and with a great deal of emphasis. When we read ...
Chapter?10Still Solomon looks great, and every thing in this chapter adds to his magnificence. We read nothing indeed of his charity, of no hospitals ...
Chapter?16In this chapter, I. The greatness of the calamity that was coming upon the Jewish nation is illustrated by prohibitions given to the prophet...
CHAP. II. Augustine's Confessions Abridged. From the latter end of the third century to the former part of the fifth, we have seen a gradual decle...
X. THINGS UNSEEN TO BE PREFERRED TO THINGS SEEN. While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the thi...
The Life and Writings of Gregory of NyssaThe Life and Writings of Gregory of Nyssa--------Chapter I.-A Sketch of the Life of S. Gregory of Nyssa.In th...
SERMON XXVIII. PREACHED UPON WHITSUNDAY. [Part of the Gospel of the Day.] John xiv. 20. At that day shall ye know, that I am in my Father, and y...
SERMON X. THE INQUIRY, WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED? Acts xvi. ilO.? What must I do to be saved ?*' In the last discourse I endeavoured to show that ...
?EXPOSITION Verse 12. So teach us to number our days. Instruct us to set store by time, mourning for that time past wherein we have wrought the will o...
Chapter?2The apostle, having in the foregoing chapter exhorted them to proceed and advance in the Christian race, now comes to remove, as much as in h...
I-OUGHT NOT A YOUNG MAN TO THINK? Certainly a young man ought to think. Till I can persuade you to do that, I have done nothing. The very first requ...
Oration VII.Oration VII.Panegyric on His Brother S. Caesarius. The date of this Oration is probably the spring of a.d. 369. It is placed by S. Jerome ...
Chapter?55As we had much of Christ in the 53rd chapter, and much of the church of Christ in the 54th chapter, so in this chapter we have much of the c...
Prove all things: hold fast that which is good.? 1 Thess. v. 21. Reader, You live in days when the text before your eyes is one of the first import...
Book II.Book II.On the Belief in the Resurrection.1. In the former book I indulged my longing to some extent, lest too sharp remedies applied to a bur...
III. PRIVATE JUDGMENT. Prove all things: holdfast that which is good.?1 Thess. V. 21. There were three great doctrines or principles which won the ...
I. First Conference of Abbot Moses.I. First Conference of Abbot Moses. Chapter I. Of our stay in Scete, and that which we proposed to Abbot Moses.When...
106 SERMON VI. PREACHED AT ST. PAUL'S ON CHRISTMAS-DAY, 1628. Lord, who hath believed our report? I Have named to you no book, no chapter, no vers...
Chapter?21 Verse 1 Note, 1. Even the hearts of men are in God?s hand, and not only their goings, as he had said, ch.?20:24 . God can change men?s mind...
Chapter?41This chapter, as the former, in intended both for the conviction of idolaters and for the consolation of all God?s faithful worshippers; for...