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 […]
Let grace have the ordering of your tongues, and of your hands; the moulding of your whole conversation. Let not humility appear in some actions, and pride in others; holy seriousness in some companies, and vain frothiness in others. Suffer not the fountain of corruption to […]