EXECELLENT PASSAGES FROM EMINENT DIVINES (TAKEN FROM AUGUSTUS TOPLADY’S WORKS) For these six thousand years. God has been multiplying pardons; and yet free grace is not tired. Christ undertook to satisfy, and He hath money enough to pay. ‘Twere folly, to think, that an emperor’s revenue will not pay a beggars debt. Mercy is an …
Author: John Newton
PURGE ME WITH HYSSOP Sermon Mr. J. Kemp “Ebenezer” Chapel, Luton March 15th, 1955 “Iniquities prevail against me; as for our transgressions, Thou shalt purge them away.” Psalm 65, 3. In the second verse of this Psalm the godly Psalmist has given expression to a very wonderful truth; “O Thou that hearest prayer”—the character and …
PREPARATION, INDISPENSABLE AND DESIRABLE Address given at Funeral of Mr. John Kemp at “Ebenezer” Luton on Friday, 23rd January, 1970, by Mr. V. Farley. I am certain that, if it is to be well with us, we do need to be divinely prepared for death and, contemplating that word “prepared” or “preparation”, I find, according …
At that time Jesus answered and said I thank thee O Father Lord of heaven and earth because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes. Matt. 11.25.
Is it nothing to you all ye that pass by? Behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow! Lamentations 1.12.
NIFF AND HIS DOGS Amongst the notorious characters of our village, thirty years ago, the subject of this narrative stood the most prominent. He was then in the prime of life, of middle stature, with a strong constitution, and remarkable activity, and the whole energy of body and soul was daily employed in the service …
THE MEMORY OF THE JUST Mr. B. Ramsbottom, B.A. Sermon Mr. J. C. Philpot Centenary Service at Stamford 9th December, 1969 “Thou art my King, 0 God; command deliverances for Jacob.” Last August I spoke in the little chapel at Allington where Mr. J. C. Philpot preached his first and last sermons among the Strict …
THE LORD WILL PROVIDE God has chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith and “heirs of the kingdom.” The following sketch which is an instance of this, presents an illustration of the fulfilment of Christ’s gracious words, “the hairs of your head are numbered;” and also the words of the Psalmist, “The eyes …
DIVINE GUIDANCE It is well for those who are duly sensible of their own weakness and fallibility, and of the difficulties with which they are surrounded in life, that the Lord has promised to guide His people with His eye, and to cause them to hear a word behind them, saying, “This is the way, …