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Directions for Governing the Appetite Or, Directions against Gluttony Richard Baxter, 1615-1691 The most that is necessary to be said to acquaint you with the nature and evil of this sin, is said before in my chapter, The Sinfulness of Flesh-Pleasing . But something more particularly must be said: 1... Read More

Faith's Standing-Ground Preached at Gower Street Chapel, London, on June 8, 1862, by J. C. Philpot "What shall we then say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all thing... Read More

Mind Your Words! Francis Bourdillon , 1873 "The tongue has the power of life and death!" Proverbs 18:21 Many people seem to think that words signify little. They must not do what is wrong—but they may say what they please. So they seem to think. Is this right? No, it is quite wrong. What we say sign... Read More

The Two Conquerors Francis Bourdillon , 1873 The shops are closed; the streets are crowded; guns are firing; flags are flying—it is a general holiday, a day of public rejoicing. What has happened? A great general has just landed from foreign parts. He has come home a conqueror, for he has taken a st... Read More

Daily Talk George Everard, 1866 The prominence given in Scripture to any subject, is usually a fair criterion of its importance . If it be seldom referred to, if little is said upon it directly or indirectly, we may infer that it is not a matter upon which great stress need be laid. If, however, we ... Read More

Preface to Volume 7, Psalms 125-150 At the end of all these years, the last page of this Commentary is printed, and the seventh preface is requested. This demand sounds strange in my ears. A preface when the work is done? It is only nominally a preface--it is really a farewell. I introduce my closin... Read More

Treasury of David Charles Spurgeon PSALM 141 TITLE. A Psalm, Of David. Yes, David under suspicion, half afraid to speak lest he should speak unadvisedly while trying to clear himself; David slandered and beset by enemies; David censured even by saints, and taking it kindly; David deploring the condi... Read More

Private Prayer Arthur Pink "But you, when you pray, enter into your closet, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret, shall reward you openly" (Matthew 6:6). Eight times in the space of this verse, is the pronoun used in the singular ... Read More

Friends Arthur Pink, 1951 At the very beginning of human history, God Himself declared, "It is not good that the man should be alone" (Gen 2:18). He was not made for solitude, but society, not to live in isolation, but in company with others. Yet since God spoke those words — sin has entered the wor... Read More

Christian Submission Arthur Pink July, 1946 "Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God." Ephesians 5:21 This is a general exhortation which sums up much of what has been set forth in the fourth and fifth chapters of this epistle. It is founded upon the grand truth of the unity of the m... Read More