They who have true love to God love him so as wholly to devote themselves to God. This we are taught in the sum of the Ten Commandments: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with […]
Infinite Wisdom also has contrived that we should behold the glory of the Deity, in the face of Jesus Christ, to the greatest advantage, in such a manner as should be best adapted to the capacity of poor feeble man; in such a manner, too, as […]
Happiness is the end of the creation, as appears by this, because the creation had as good not be, as not rejoice in its being. For certainly it was the goodness of the Creator that moved Him to create; and how can we conceive of another […]
The true Christian is called to be a soldier, and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death—he must fight his own flesh.
True holiness does not consist merely of believing and feeling, but of doing and bearing, and a practical exhibition of active and passive grace.