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 […]
The complete happiness of the redeemed is a kingdom A kingdom is the top of worldly felicity; there is nothing on earth greater than a kingdom: therefore the hidden weight of the glory in heaven is held forth to us under that notion. But it is […]
There is a great deal of difference between the desires of heaven in a sanctified man, and an unsanctified. The believer prizes it above earth, and had rather be with God than here (though death, which stands in the way, may possibly have harder thoughts from […]
After millions of years and ages, the felicity of the saints shall be as far from ending, as when their souls were first received into paradise The infinite love of God, the everlasting merit of Christ, and the unchangeableness of the covenant of grace, assures us […]
A sound belief in things unseen will cause practical estimation of them, and that above all earthly things. A glimpse of the heavenly glory as in a glass will cause the soul deliberately to say, “This is the chief desirable felicity; this is the crown, the […]