Christ our Example
Issue: Issue 8
Think it not strange that God makes thy pleasant roses pricking briars and thorns to thee, who hast made them spikes and swords to Him. Bartholomew Ashwood (1622-78)
DEATH DISARMED Mr Christopher Love was ordered to be executed on Tower Hill. August 22, 1651, the very day the King entered Worcester at the head of his Scots army. He mounted the scaffold with great intrepidity and resolution, and, taking off his hat several times to the people, made a long speech, wherein he …
DR. RICHARD CONYERS Dr. Conyers was born at Helmsley, in Yorkshire, on February 13th, 1725. He was early deprived of both parents, and he was brought up by his aged grandmother. He was first sent to school at Cukwold. and afterwards, at a suitable age, to Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was unwearied in his …
Let him bring for his sin which he hath sinned a young bullock without blemish. unto the Lord for a sin-offering. Lev 4 3.
A HARD HEART Twenty years ago, it pleased God to visit the town of H – and the surrounding villages with a time of general reviving. It bore no resemblance to those seasons of fitful and forced excitement resulting from laborious efforts, in what are called “special services,” which are too often mistaken for revivals …
GREAT THINGS That day you were converted and brought home to God, you had a special right and title given you to all the creatures; you may look up to heaven and see the stars, and say, these are my Father’s candles; and when you hear the thunder, you may say, this is my Father’s …
RECEIVING AND BELIEVING. Sermon Mr. S. Delves. Crowborough But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God. even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man. but of God. …
Prepare for changes, but live upon Immutability and be settled under all your unsettlements.