Young people, by walking in the ways of Christ and Christian virtue, obtain pleasure of the most excellent kind.
They that spend their youth in the exercise of Christian virtue, they may think of old age with comfort, if they should live to it: and they may think of death with comfort, and may think of eternity with unspeakable joy.
Who of created intelligences would have thought of any such thing as the eternal and infinitely beloved Son of God being substituted in the room of sinners?
Pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul’s peace, and of sweet communion with Christ.
Humility in fallen man implies a sense of a twofold meanness before God, natural and moral. His natural meanness consisting in his being infinitely below God in natural perfection, or God’s being infinitely above him in greatness, in power, wisdom, majesty, and the like. So a […]