If ye live after the flesh ye shall die; but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the sons of God. Romans 8.14.
Issue: Issue 5
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.
THE SINS OF CHRISTIANS When God elected His people in Christ, and reconciled them to Himself in Him, He foresaw all the evil that would be in them both before and after their conversion; and if this did not prevent His choosing and calling them, it never can be the cause of His casting them …
THE MINISTER AND THE FEAR OF MAN Charles Bridges* What conscientious minister is not painfully reminded of the truth of the inspired aphorism—”The fear of man bringeth a snare?” Prov. 29.25. Perhaps no temptation is more specious in its character, or more subtle and diversified in its operation. Its connection with worldly conformity is sufficiently …
BELIEVERS’ COMMUNION The sweetest pleasures of God’s dear children are in fellowship with the Father and the Son, through the Spirit. Every step in communion with God is a paradise. How can it be less, since they are led by that hand, at which are rivers of pleasures; lie in that bosom, which is infinitely …
“And when they say unto you Seek unto them that have familiar spirits and unto wizards that peep (chirp) and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? or the living to the dead? To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according t
I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago . . . such an one caught up to the third heaven. (2 Cor. 12.2).
OMNISCIENCE OF GOD God’s eye is upon every hour of my existence. His Spirit is intimately present with every thought of my heart. His inspiration gives birth to every purpose within me. His Hand impresses a direction on every footstep of my goings. Every breath I inhale is drawn by an energy which God deals …
THE COVENANT OF GRACE Did Christians but study the Covenant of grace more, and understand better than they do the difference between the covenant of grace and the Covenant of works, how would their fears and doubts about their spiritual estates vanish, as the clouds before the sun when it shines in its greatest strength …
SNARES AND DIFFICULTIES IN THE MINISTRY A letter by John Newton Dear Sir, I am glad to hear that you are ordained, and that the Lord is about to fix you in a place where there is a prospect of your being greatly useful. He has given you the desire of your heart; and I …