“Not only colts, but horses already broken, need a bridle.” So also do we who are advanced in years and full of experience. Old men are not always wise men. Passions which should have been by this time quite subdued still need bit and bridle, or […]
Go down into your hearts and take the keys of them and ransack your private cupboards, and narrowly observe what junkets your souls have until now lived upon, and gone behind the door and there secretly and stoutly have made a meal of them. Delights are […]
Great is the importance of Christ’s death We must all see, on a moment’s reflection, that without a real death there could be no real sacrifice; that without a real death there could be no real resurrection; and that without a real death and real resurrection, […]
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 […]
“A giant striking with a straw cannot put forth his strength with it. So in blessing, no creature nor ordinance can convey all the goodness of God to us.” —Thomas Manton The best preacher is no better than a straw, in and of himself. God shows […]