DUTIES OF MINISTERS AND PEOPLE Ambrose Serle* It would be presumption in me to offer instruction to those by whom I would most gladly be taught. My words, therefore, on this lead shall be few; and I trust they will not offend. The faithful minister is the servant, the shepherd or pastor, the overseer, the …
Author: Ambrose Serle
QUARRELS AMONG CHRISTIANS Ambrose Searle* IT is not grace which genders strife, but corruption. If therefore any brother’s corruption be raised against me, shall I oppose my corruption to his, and so enter into wrath? or shall I not rather beg of God, that His grace in me may invite the grace that is in …
TEMPTATIONS Ambrose Serle* It is a great part of the Christian warfare to encounter temptations. When a man truly becomes Christ’s soldier, he is armed from head to foot by Him; because, from head to foot will his enemies attack him with all sorts of weapons, to inflict all possible distress, where they cannot overwhelm …
THE METHOD OF MERCY Soul, dost thou feel the power of thy own corruption?-Are these thy meek, yet bitter cries? 0 hear, and may thy God enable thee to believe, the glad tidings of His own salvation! Thou art a sinner, it is true; and thy mercy it is to see, in due measure, how …
ENTRANCE INTO SPIRITUAL LIFE “Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the Most High God?” How shall I, a sinner, approach the eyes of that Majesty, which cannot look upon sin without abhorrence? My iniquities are more in number than the hairs of my head, and my heart sinketh within me …