ON PREACHING Study not to be a fine preacher. Jericho’s are blown down with rams’ horns. Look simply unto Jesus for preaching food, and what is ranted will be given, and what is given will be blest, whether it be a barley or a wheaten loaf, a crust or a crumb. Your mouth will be …
Author: John Berridge
ADVICE TO A YOUNG MINISTER Lay open the spirituality of the law, and its extent, reaching to every thought, word, and action, and declaring every transgression, whether by omission or commission, deserving of death. Declare .man’s utter helplessness to change his own nature, or to make his peace. Pardon and holiness must come from the …
A LETTER BY JOHN BERRIDGE “Dear Sir, – Your letter of 2nd of July came duly to hand, but has waited a wearisome while for an answer. Indeed, I have been much, yet not too much afflicted, for some months, with my old disorder, a nervous fever. We have been housekeepers every summer these forty …
RURAL DEANS & RAMBLING BISHOPS If every parish church were blessed with a gospel minister, there could be little need of itinerant preaching; but since these ministers are thinly scattered about the country, and neighbouring pulpits are usually locked up against them, it behoves them to take advantage of fields or barns to cast abroad …
Jesus employs very strange hands sometimes to do His work and carry His message. Berridge.
“LET US GO ON” Dear Sir,—I received your kind letter along with your present. I thank you for the present, as being a token of your respect, and attended, I find, with your daily prayers for me, which I value more than human presents. The Lord bless you, and lift up the light of his …
“BUY AND EAT . . . WITHOUT MONEY” Gold or spices have I none, For a present to my King, All my livelihood is gone, Only rags and wounds I bring. But I’ll traffic. Lord, with Thee. For Thy market suits me well; All my blessings must be free, And I know Thou wilt not …
FAITH AND OBEDIENCE Bought I am, and dearly too, Jesus paid my ransom due; Freely paid it with His blood, Tells me I am bought for God. Lord, my all I would resign, Soul and body now be thine; Take and use me as thy own, Let thy holy will be done. John Berridge.