GRACIOUS LESSONS A Sermon preached at the first Annual Meeting of the Cherith Trust, June 23rd, 1973, at Cave Adullam Chapel, Blackheath, Birmingham, and published by request. “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, …
Author: Samuel Rutherford
A BRIDLE FOR THE BODY Comments on James 3,2 by Thomas Manton. By bridling the body is meant, then, governing all his other actions, which are expressed here by the term body because they are acted by the members of the body, eyes, hands, feet, and so forth. Why he pitches so much weight upon …
NOTE ON THE LIFE OF THE DR. THOMAS MANTON K. W. H. Howard Thomas Manton was an eminent Puritan divine who was born at Laurence Lydiard in Somerset in 1620. His father and both his grandfathers were ministers of the Gospel before him. He was sent to the Free School at Tiverton, and afterwards to …
THE BASQUE SHEEPHERDER AND THE SHEPHERD PSALM J. K. Wallace Old Ferando D’Alfonso was a Basque herder employed by one of the big Nevada sheep outfits. I sat with him one night under the clear, starry skies, his sheep bedded down beside a pool of sparkling water. As we were preparing to curl up in …
PRISCILLA J. Ashworth Strange Tales I knew a young man who was struggling hard with a small business and a young family, trying to help his aged father and mother—dependent upon their children—and who regarded it as one of his many blessings that he was able to do a little towards making his aged parents …
THE SIMPLICITY OF FAITH The following anecdote was related by Dr. Spence. Some years ago there prevailed, in one of our northern districts for several weeks, a drought, which, it was anticipated, would result in fearful consequences. It was ultimately decided by a few godly men to meet for prayer to ask God to send …
SIN, HOLINESS AND THE SAVIOUR J. C. Ryle Extracted from “Holiness” SIN A Scriptural view of sin is one of the best antidotes to that vague, dim, misty, hazy kind of theology which is so painfully current in the present age. It is vain to shut our eyes to the fact that there is a …
WHAT IS PRIDE? C. H. Spurgeon There is nothing into which the heart of man so easily falls as PRIDE, and yet there is no vice which is more frequently, more emphatically, and more eloquently condemned in Scripture. Pride is a groundless thing. It stands on the sands; or worse than that, it puts its …
Civility and morality without sanctity, is but gilded infidelity. Ralph Venning 1620—1673.
Tertullian saith to young women: if they were but clothed with the silk of piety, the satin of sanctity, and the purple of modesty. God Himself would be a suitor to them. Ralph Venning 1620—1673.