The follies of the schoolmen should be a warning to all those who would mingle metaphysical speculations or prophetical theories with the simple doctrines of the Bible. There was among those learned men such a rage for Aristotle, that his ethics were frequently read to the […]
The apostle denies that any have rightly learned Christ, who have not been taught that they must put off the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and put on Christ (Eph 4:20ff). Their knowledge of Christ, then, is proved to be a […]
Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever. The Glorifying of God The first in the consideration of our chief end is the glorifying of God: ‘That God in all things may be glorified’ (1 Peter 4:11). The glory of God […]
“Thy word have I hid in mine heart.” His heart would be kept by the word because he kept the word in his heart. All that he had of the word … he had stored away in his affections, as a treasure to be safely preserved, […]
A strange plant needs more care than a native of the soil. Worldly desires, like a weed, breed of their own accord, but spiritual desires need a great deal of cultivating. —Thomas Manton Adapted from The Complete Works of Thomas Manton, 6:432.