If you look past the world, you put your head up into eternity. Thomas Goodwin
Issue: Issue 5
Repentance – that fair and happy daughter of an ugly and odious mother. John Trapp
CHRISTIANS CHRISTIANS are in the world what the soul is in the body. The soul is diffused throughout the members of the body; so are Christians throughout the countries of the world. The soul dwells in the body, but is not of the body; so Christians are in the world, but not of the world. …
PATIENCE God had spoken words of promise to the people of Israel, and no matter if the cloud remained stationary twenty years instead of a few days. God had said, “I will take you into the land of Canaan,” and this ought to have been enough for them. Mark the impatience which these people exhibited …
There is no wrinkle on the brow of eternity Thomas Manton
God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains but the rebellious dwell in a dry land. Ps. 68.6.
He is a base servant that is ashamed of his Lord’s livery. George Swinnock
PHRASEOLOGY There were faithful sayings which became part of the spiritual language of the Christian church within the lifespan of the Apostles. 1 Tim. 1.15, 4.9. 2 Tim. 2.11. Titus 3.8. Their proclamation of the gospel produced a Christian phraseology; their exposition of the Old Testament embedded the Christian sense of Old Testament words, like …