“Nothing but the deepest and direst exigency could have demanded, or even justified, such a sacrifice as the death of God’s eternal Son. The sufferings of Christ are the most affecting testimony in the universe, of man’s unyielding, helpless depravity.” Gardiner Spring, The Attraction Of The […]
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.—PSALM 51:5. The end of the ministry of the gospel is to bring sinners unto Christ. Their way to this end lies through the sense of their misery without Christ. The ingredients of […]
The heart, that was made according to God’s own heart, is now the reverse of it, a forge of evil imaginations, a sink of inordinate affections, and a storehouse of all impiety (Mark 7:21-22). The mind is defiled; the thoughts of the heart are evil; the […]
Oftentimes men charge that upon the devil that is to be charged upon their own hearts Though Satan has his devices to draw souls to sin, yet we must be careful that we do not lay all our temptations upon Satan, that we do not wrong […]