It was by the ear, by our first parents listening to the serpent, that we lost paradise; and it is by the ear, by hearing of the Word, that we get to heaven. “Hear, and your souls shall live.” (Isaiah 55:3). Thomas Watson
Issue: Issue 6
Good prayers never come weeping home. I am sure I shall receive, either what I ask or what I should ask. Joseph Hall
The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer fetched the angel. Thomas Watson
We may be losers for Him, we shall never be losers by Him. Thomas Watson
God hath work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties and entanglements, is to cast off His authority. It is not enough that we be just, that we be righteous, and walk with God in holiness; but we must also serve our generation as David did before he fell …
“And the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me and said unto me Speak; Thus saith the Lord.†Ezekiel 11.5.
FOR WHOM DID CHRIST DIE? In volume 10 of the Works of John Owen, reprinted by the Banner of Truth in 1967 there is a long and powerful discussion of the question of the extent of the Atonement under the title The Death of Death in the Death of Christ. For anyone who is troubled …
PARTICULAR REDEMPTION An extract from The Early Years by C. H. Spurgeon Some persons love the doctrine of universal atonement because they say, “It is so beautiful. It is a lovely idea that Christ should have died for all men; it commends itself,” they say, “to the instincts of humanity; here is something in it …
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity 1 am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge; and though 1 have all faith so that 2 5