The master’s mind is often more toiled than the servant’s body. Robert Leighton
Author: John Calvin
THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD George Burder (1752-1832) “But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.” Psalm 115.3. The sovereignty of God is a sublime and difficult subject, yet very important and useful. Some of the divine perfections may, perhaps, appear to our selfish minds more amiable and attractive; but …
JOHN BUTTERWORTH John Butterworth was pastor of the Baptist Church in Coventry 1753-1803. This account of his spiritual experiences is taken from a book on local Baptist history by Miss 1. Morris. It was in the Cow Lane Chapel, where this church met from 1793, that William Gadsby was baptized in the year the building …
RECEIVING THE WEAK “Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.” Rom. 14.1. Him that is weak in the faith, receive ye.—In this verse, and onwards to the 13th of the following chapter, the Apostle, as in the 8th and 10th chapters of 1st Corinthians, establishes the duty of …
It should be between a strong saint and a weak as it is between two lute strings that are tuned together; No sooner one is struck but the other trembles. Thomas Brooks
CHRISTIAN LOVE “Charity… .thinketh no evil.”—1 Cor. 13.5. Christian love, is opposed not only to pride and selfishness, but to the ordinary fruits of these evil dispositions, like an angry spirit and a censorious spirit. And in respect to this, the apostle declares, that charity “thinketh no evil.” The doctrine set forth in these words …
By revenge thou canst but satisfy a lust, but by forgiveness thou shalt conquer a lust. John Flavel