HE THAT GIVETH TO THE POOR LENDETH TO THE LORD I had been preaching at Stansted, and, after sermon, visited a house where affliction had entered like a flood. The daughter who had requested me to call was confined with a white swelling on the knee, her sister had cancer, her mother was prostrate with …
Issue: Issue 7
They that think (as all hypocrites do) to deceive God, will find that they deceive themselves.
They who are most with God in secret, know most of God’s secrets.
‘Tis no sin to shew one’s righteousness, but ‘tis sin indeed to be righteous only in shew. Ralph Venning 1620-1673
Upon the Death of the Reverend and GODLY DIVINE
Mr. FRANCIS HOLCROFT
MRS. MARY CHURCHMAN. Agreeably to what my parents educated me in I was zealous for the Established Church, thought all fanatics who dissented from it, and had as great an inclination to persecute them as Paul had. As a proof, there lay a way through my father’s yard for Mrs. M., a godly woman, to …
All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousness; that the man of God may be perfect throughly furnished unto all good works. — 2 Timothy 3 16-17.
THE LORD OUR HEALER There is in Scripture a hard word about our doctors, and that written by a doctor himself. You remember that Luke the Evangelist was a physician by profession. And yet of the woman who touched the hem of Jesus’ garment, he did not hesitate to write this brief historia morbi.* She …
ABRAHAM KUYPER (1837-1920) Kuyper was a brilliant, vigorous, and versatile man who for over fifty years was a leader of Dutch thought and action in the Church, in Education, and in the State. He was the son of a minister, and had the benefit of the nurture and admonition of a godly and orthodox Christian …
God’s faithfulness doth more for us than our faith. Ralph Venning 1620—1673.