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
A WORD TO THE SAINTS FROM THE WATCH TOWER BY A FAITHFUL AMBASSADOR IN BONDS FOR THE GOSPEL DIVERS YEARS CAMBRIDGE CASTLE 27TH DECEMBER 1667 TO THE FAITHFUL BRETHREN IN CHRIST IN LONDON FRANCES HOLCROFT WISHETH GRACE, MERCY, AND PEACE FROM GOD OUR FATHER, AND THE LORD JESUS CHRIST Being before the throne of grace …
In the worship of God, while the body is upon the knee, the soul ought to be upon the wing.
The tongue blessing God without the heart, is but a tinkling cymbal; the heart blessing God without the tongue, is sweet but still music; both in consort make their harmony which fills and delights heaven and earth. Ralph Yenning 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 …