The degeneration of human nature is such that it not only practice sins, but glories in them. Man fallen is but man inverted and turned upside down; his love is where his hatred should be, and his hatred where his love should be; his glory where […]
If we do not delight in communion with him, we do not honour him as the chiefest good. Friends love to be often in one another’s company, and certainly ‘it is good to draw nigh to God,’ to preserve an acquaintance between him and us. He […]
When we look upon sin through Satan’s spectacles, and the cloud of our own passions and carnal affections, we make nothing of it; but in the agonies of Christ, and the sorrows and sufferings of his cross, we see the odiousness of it, that it may […]
The great work of prayer is to lift up the heart to God To withdraw the heart from all created things which we see and feel here below, that we may converse with God in heaven: “Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that […]
AII our prayers should carry a correspondence with our great aim. What is our great aim? To be with God in heaven, as remembering that is the center and place of our rest, to which we are all tending: “If ye then be risen with Christ, […]