Enjoying spiritual communion with God is a riddle and mystery to most people. Every one that hangs about the court does not speak with the king. We may approach God in ordinances, and hang about the court of heaven, yet not enjoy communion with God. We […]
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 […]
There are several deceits of repentance which might occasion that saying of Augustine that “repentance damns many.” He meant a false repentance; a person may delude himself with counterfeit repentance. 1. The first deceit of repentance is legal terror A man has gone on long in […]
Life is the Porch of Eternity Here the believer dresses himself that he may be fit to enter in with the Bridegroom. We cannot say of a wicked man that life is his Though he lives, yet life is not his; he is dead while he […]
A contented Christian carries heaven about him For, what is heaven, but that sweet repose and full contentment that the soul shall have in God? In contentment there are the first fruits of heaven. There are two things in a contented spirit, which make it like […]