From the greatness and immensity of God… Your soul must reverently stay all its busy, bold inquiries, and know that God is to us, and to every creature, incomprehensible. If you could fathom or measure Him, and know His greatness by a comprehensive knowledge, He were […]
Have you never beheld a condemned prisoner dissolved into tears upon the unexpected and unmerited receipt of a pardon, who all the time before was as hard as a flint? The hammer of the law may break the icy heart of a man with terrors and […]
Self-love may be the foundation of a supposed love to God Self-love, through the exercise of a mere natural gratitude, may be the foundation of a sort of love to God many ways. A kind of love may arise from a false notion of God that […]
If you neglect to instruct [children] in the way of holiness, will the devil [and the world and their own nature] neglect to instruct them in the way of wickedness? No; if you will not teach them to pray, he will to curse, swear, and lie. […]
May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, Selah Psalm 67:1 This is a fit refrain to the benediction of the High Priest in the name of the Lord (Numbers 6:24–25). It begins with a cry for […]