A Christian must keep a watch and guard against envy and malice, or any bitterness of spirit These things are the very reverse of that great and distinguishing thing in Christianity—the very essence of Christianity. It behooves Christians, as they would not by their practice directly […]
True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed, and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage as when under the greatest trials. The Works of Jonathan Edwards, 1:236. Jonathan Edwards
God has appointed a particular and lively application of His word, in the preaching of it, as a fit means to affect sinners with the importance of devotion to God, their own misery without God, the necessity of a remedy from God, and the glory and […]
The excellency of Christ is such, that the discovery of it is exceedingly contenting and satisfying to the soul. The inquiry of the soul is after that which is most excellent. The carnal soul imagines that earthly things are excellent; one thinks riches most excellent, another […]
Christ was in the greatest degree of His humiliation in His dying on the cross, and yet by that, above all other things, His divine glory appears. Christ’s humiliation was great, in being born in such a low condition, of a poor virgin, and in a […]