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A Devotional Commentary on the Gospels Arranged for family devotions, for every day in the year. By Favell Lee Mortimer (1802—1878) JUNE 1 Matthew 18:21 to end. The parable of the unforgiving servant. How odious that servant appears, who after having received such exceeding benefits from his Lord, w... Read More

IT IS CHARACTERISTIC OF the Christian gospel that its Savior should be a worker. In the old world, it was hardly an honorable thing to work. It was a thing for slaves, and serfs, and strangers, not for freeborn men. Hence work and greatness rarely went together, and nothing could be more alien to th... Read More

The Westminster Confession of Faith gives I Timothy 3:16 as a proof text of the Incarnation of the Son. "And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received u... Read More

A REPLY TO AN ANSWER OF SOME QUERIES CONCERNING THE GOSPEL-BAPTISM GIVEN FORTH BY ME, I. P. WITH ANSWERS TO SOME QUERIES RETURNED, IN A PAPER SUBSCRIBED N. B. [1679] Query 1. WHICH is the gospel baptism, or of what kind is the baptism in the gospel state? Is it outward or inward? Is it the figure of... Read More

Thus hath the Lord GOD shown unto me; and, behold, a basket of summer fruit. (Amos 8:1) A basket of summer fruit represents a harvest. It tells us that the tree is no longer producing. So although a basket of summer fruit is delightful and delicious, it also speaks of the end of the harvest. It also... Read More

Meditations on First Peter Chapter One by J. C. Philpot, 1869 Part X. It is truly blessed to see by faith the strength and firmness of the foundation which God has laid in Zion. We have this firm and strong foundation brought before us in those words of the Apostle with which we closed our last arti... Read More

Chapter Ten from the book Meditations on the Sacred Humanity of The Blessed Redeemer There is this peculiar blessedness in the Person and work of the adorable Redeemer, that, like the sun which shines in every clime, he is ever beaming forth out of his inexhaustible fullness rays of grace and glory,... Read More

Among the spiritually significant stories of the Old Testament, there are none that contain deeper teaching for the individual overcomer and the whole militant Church of Christ than those of the outflow from the smitten rock and the ensuing battle with Amalek, recorded in the seventeenth chapter of ... Read More

A favorite device of the Devil is to have men look to their works for their salvation instead of looking to Christ. He leads some to trust in their morality, some to depend upon lodge membership, some to depend upon confessions to priests; some he leads to trust in baptism. That is a fatal mistake. ... Read More

There have been too many sermons on baptism as a part of the doctrines of some denomination. There is too much talk about "Baptist doctrine" or "Methodist doctrine" or "the doctrine of our church." In this Bible study, we are interested solely in what the Bible teaches about baptism. Nothing else ma... Read More