“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.
The worth and excellency of a soul is to be measured by the object of its love: he who loves mean and sordid things does thereby become base and vile. But a noble and well-placed affection does advance and improve the spirit unto a conformity with […]
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 […]
You have seen a little child when it is greatly pleased with a gift from its mother’s hand; it says but little by way of gratitude, but it falls to kissing its mother at a vehement rate. as though it never could be done. Such drawing […]