A saint hates sin more because it is an evil against God, than because it is an evil to himself. Ralph Venning 1620—1673.
Issue: Issue 8
Self-love makes a man lovely in his own, but loathsome in God’s eyes. Ralph Venning 1620—1673.
Whoso sheddeth mans blood by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made He man.—Genesis 9 6.
O satisfy us early with thy mercy that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us and the years wherein we have seen evil. Psalm 90; 14 16.
In the selfsame day entered Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth the sons of Noah and Noahs wife and the three wives of his sons with them into the ark.—Genesis 7. 13.
Text: And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered; for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance as the Lord hath said and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call. (Joel 2 32)
This pen-portrait of a native Christian from the islands of the New Hebrides is largely extracted from the book John G. Paton republished by the Banner of Truth in 1965 a book first published in 1889.