I AM THE VINE Notes of a lecture given at Rehoboth Chapel, Bromley, September 2003. John 15.1-16 Introduction The language is that of a parable, an illustration of spiritual things by use of a familiar picture from the natural world. As with all parables it is important to grasp the main lessons and not to …
Issue: Issue 7
Civility and morality without sanctity, is but gilded infidelity. Ralph Venning 1620—1673.
Tertullian saith to young women: if they were but clothed with the silk of piety, the satin of sanctity, and the purple of modesty. God Himself would be a suitor to them. Ralph Venning 1620—1673.
GRACIOUS LESSONS A Sermon preached at the first Annual Meeting of the Cherith Trust, June 23rd, 1973, at Cave Adullam Chapel, Blackheath, Birmingham, and published by request. “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, …
A BRIDLE FOR THE BODY Comments on James 3,2 by Thomas Manton. By bridling the body is meant, then, governing all his other actions, which are expressed here by the term body because they are acted by the members of the body, eyes, hands, feet, and so forth. Why he pitches so much weight upon …
NOTE ON THE LIFE OF THE DR. THOMAS MANTON K. W. H. Howard Thomas Manton was an eminent Puritan divine who was born at Laurence Lydiard in Somerset in 1620. His father and both his grandfathers were ministers of the Gospel before him. He was sent to the Free School at Tiverton, and afterwards to …
THE BASQUE SHEEPHERDER AND THE SHEPHERD PSALM J. K. Wallace Old Ferando D’Alfonso was a Basque herder employed by one of the big Nevada sheep outfits. I sat with him one night under the clear, starry skies, his sheep bedded down beside a pool of sparkling water. As we were preparing to curl up in …
PRISCILLA J. Ashworth Strange Tales I knew a young man who was struggling hard with a small business and a young family, trying to help his aged father and mother—dependent upon their children—and who regarded it as one of his many blessings that he was able to do a little towards making his aged parents …
God expects that saints should do more for Him than others, because He hath done more for them than others. Ralph Venning 1620—1673.