There is but a very imperfect union with God to be had in this world —A very imperfect knowledge of him in the midst of much darkness; a very imperfect conformity to God, mingled with abundance of estrangement. Here we can serve and glorify God but […]
God is the highest good of the reasonable creature; and the enjoyment of him is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Fathers and mothers, husbands, […]
AII our prayers should carry a correspondence with our great aim. What is our great aim? To be with God in heaven, as remembering that is the center and place of our rest, to which we are all tending: “If ye then be risen with Christ, […]
In heaven there is perfect obedience There is no failing, not in the least circumstance. “Now I know in part,” said the apostle, “but then (that is, when he should come to heaven) shall I know even as also I am known” (1 Cor 13:12). Peter […]
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 […]