“The way to destroy ill weeds is to plant good herbs that are contrary.” We have all heard of weeds choking the wheat; if we were wise we should learn from our enemy, and endeavor to choke the weeds by the wheat. Preoccupation of mind is […]
It should be the Christian’s chief care to obtain from God the choicest mercies The worldly are indeed easily put off with the meanest, because their inquiry is only who will show them any good. But O Christian! Let nothing please or satisfy you, but the […]
Keep at the greatest distance from sin, and from playing with the golden bait that Satan holds forth to catch you Anselm used to say, ‘That if he should see the shame of sin on the one hand, and the pains of hell on the other, […]
Everything that a man leans upon but God, will be a dart that will certainly pierce his heart through and through. Ah! how many in these days have lost their estates, their friends, their lives, their souls, by leaning upon their admired parts and abilities! The […]
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 […]