ADDRESS TO STUDENTS OF DIVINITY* MY DEAR PUPILS, For my assistance in instructing you, this Compendious View of Natural and Revealed Religion was formed. To gratify a number of you, it is now published. Being formed, not to make you read, but to make you think much, it must now appear dry and meagre, as …
Issue: Issue 7
PREACHING CHRIST Thomas Brooks It is the great duty of ministers to preach Jesus Christ to the people. Acts 5:42: ‘And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach.’ What? Jesus Christ. So in Acts 3:20: ‘And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you.’ …
JOHN BROWN OF HADDINGTON ADDRESS TO STUDENTS OF DIVINITY Taken from ‘A Compendious View of Natural and Revealed Religion’ written by John Brown in 1782. Prefaced by a brief biographical sketch and introduction to the address by Pastor Austin Walker (Crawley Reformed Baptist Church). The following address has been taken from the second edition of …
A new commandment I give unto you. That ye love one another; as I have loved you that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples if ye have love one to another. John 13:3435.
EXHORTING SINNERS Olney, Oct. 20th, 1767. Dear Sir, A concern for the perplexity you have met with, from objections which have been made against some expressions in my printed sermons, and in general against exhorting sinners to believe in Jesus, engages me to write immediately; otherwise I should have waited a little longer; for we …
A PASTOR’S DYING APPEAL John Brown of Haddington My dear hearers, having through the patience and mercy of God, long laboured among you, not as I ought – far, very far from it – but as I could, I must now leave you, to appear before the judgment seat of Christ, to give an account …