The Christian life receives its strongest motive to God’s work through the person and redemptive act of Christ For we have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition: that our life express Christ, the bond of our adoption. Accordingly, unless we give […]
The apostle denies that any have rightly learned Christ, who have not been taught that they must put off the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and put on Christ (Eph 4:20ff). Their knowledge of Christ, then, is proved to be a […]
Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever. The Glorifying of God The first in the consideration of our chief end is the glorifying of God: ‘That God in all things may be glorified’ (1 Peter 4:11). The glory of God […]
If you believe that Christ was more imitable than Cæsar, or Alexander; and that it is more glory to be a Christian than to be a Conqueror, yea, to be a man than a beast, which often exceed us in strength; then contend with charity, and […]
The waters which broke down every thing else bore up the ark. That which to unbelievers is a savour of death unto death is to the faithful a savour of life unto life. The more the waters increased the higher the ark was lifted up towards […]