A WARNING When you do pay attention to the voice, take care not to fall into the habitual and common affectations of the present day. Scarcely one man in a dozen in the pulpit talks like a man. You may go all round, to church and chapel alike, and you will find that by far …
Issue: Issue 1
ON HEARING SERMONS A Letter by John Newton Dear Sir, I am glad to find that the Lord has at length been pleased to fix you in a favoured situation where you have frequent opportunities of hearing the Gospel. This is a great privilege; but, like all other outward privileges, it requires grace and wisdom …
A PASTOR’S RESIGNATION New House, Upottery, August 21st. 1841. To the Church of Christ meeting in this place. Beloved in the Lord, For nearly 15 years the Lord has enabled me to sustain the Pastoral office over you. But now it appears evidently to me to be His will that I should resign it, and …
TWENTY POUNDS J. Ashworth Strange Tales To walk across the street, to turn the corner quickly or pretend to see something in a shop window because he beholds his creditor coming; to go a long way round for fear of passing his creditor’s house or hold down his head if forced to pass it lest …
TRAVAILING IN BIRTH FOR SOULS John Newton What contradictions meet In minister’s employ! It is a bitter sweet, A sorrow full of joy: No other post affords a place For equal honour or disgrace. Who can describe the pain Which faithful preachers feel, Constrained to speak in vain, To hearts as hard as steel. Or …
A LETTER TO THE COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDON by Henry Venn The only return I can make your Ladyship for the very tender sympathy you show for me in my present trial is prayer to Him who has already made so much use of you as an instrument, that He would do so more and more. …
Grace will act like itself at last, and they that trust in the Lord shall never be ashamed. Though God veil His grace, and give us mercies on the point of His sword, yet, when we pass through the fire and the water. He will abide with us; but they are good eyes to see …
God expects that saints should do more for Him than others, because He hath done more for them than others. Ralph Venning 1620—1673.
Civility and morality without sanctity, is but gilded infidelity. Ralph Venning 1620—1673.