The egg is white enough, though the hen is black as a coal This is a very simple thing, but it may cheer you up when hard times come. Out of evil comes good, through the great goodness of God From threatening clouds we get refreshing […]
God has appointed a particular and lively application of His word, in the preaching of it, as a fit means to affect sinners with the importance of devotion to God, their own misery without God, the necessity of a remedy from God, and the glory and […]
The excellency of Christ is such, that the discovery of it is exceedingly contenting and satisfying to the soul. The inquiry of the soul is after that which is most excellent. The carnal soul imagines that earthly things are excellent; one thinks riches most excellent, another […]
Never does a soul know what solid joy and substantial pleasure is till, once being weary of itself, it renounces all propriety, gives itself up to the Author of its being, and feels itself become a hallowed and devoted thing; and can say from an inward […]
Do you wonder that the world is failing? Wonder that the world is grown old. It is as a man who is born, and grows up, and waxes old. There are many complaints in old age; the cough, the rheum, the weakness of the eyes, fretfulness, […]