REGENERATION OR THE NEW BIRTH Chapter 1 ITS NECESSITY 1. The need for regeneration lies in our natural degeneration. In consequence of the fall of our first parents, all of us were born alienated from the Divine life and holiness, despoiled of all those perfections wherewith man’s nature was at firs... Read More
The second half of Matthew 7 forms the applicatory part of that most important discourse of our Lord’s, known as "the Sermon on the Mount." One leading design of the Sermon was to show the spiritual nature and wide extent of that obedience which characterizes the true subjects of Christ’s kingdom, a... Read More
A Body of PRACTICAL Divinity Book 4—Chapter 6 A COMPENDIUM OR SUMMARY OF THE DECALOGUE OR TEN COMMANDS The Commandments of the law are reduced by Christ to two capital ones; Love to God, and Love to the neighbour, (Matthew 22:36-40) and the apostle Paul says; "All the law is fulfilled in one word, e... Read More
A Body of PRACTICAL Divinity Book 1—Chapter 23 OF A GOOD CONSCIENCE The exercise of a good conscience is a branch of internal religion, and is concerned with the worship of God; God is to be "served with a pure conscience" (2 Tim. 1:3). And it has to do not only with things natural and legal, accusi... Read More
A Body of Doctrinal Divinity Book 6—Chapter 8 OF JUSTIFICATION Pardon of sin, and justification from it, are very closely connected; the one follows upon the other; according to the position of them in some passages of scripture, pardon is first, and justification next; (as in Acts 13:38, 39; 26:18)... Read More
A Body of PRACTICAL Divinity Book 1—Chapter 5 OF THE FEAR OF GOD The fear of God has so great a concern in divine worship, that it is sometimes put for the whole of it; and a worshipper of God is frequently described in scripture by one that fears him; and particularly internal worship, or experimen... Read More
THE DOCTRINE OF GRACE Cleared from the CHARGE OF LICENTIOUSNESS A Sermon, Preached at a Wednesday’s Evening Lecture in Great-Eastcheap, December 28, 1737. 1 TIMOTHY 6:3 And to the doctrine which is according to godliness. The apostle Paul well understood the doctrine of the gospel, and its natural t... Read More
The DOCTRINE OF IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS Without Works Asserted And Proved The Works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.—PSALM 111:2 Even as David also describeth the Blessedness of the Man unto whom God imputeth Righteousness without Works.—ROMANS 4:6 This Epistle... Read More
Reading: Ps. 89:19,20; Acts 13:22; Heb. 1:9; 1 Sam. 13:14. The Bible abounds with men. It abounds with many other things; with doctrine, with principles; but more than anything else it abounds with men. That is God’s method, His chosen method, His primary method of making Himself known. These men wh... Read More
"Mute Christian under the Smarting Rod" or, "The Silent Soul with Sovereign Antidotes" by Thomas Brooks, 1659, London. "I was silent; I would not open my mouth, for You are the one who has done this!" Psalm 39:9 (A Christian with an Olive Leaf in his mouth, when he is under the greatest afflictions,... Read More
REGENERATION OR THE NEW BIRTH Chapter 1 ITS NECESSITY
The Narrow Way
A Compendium of the Ten Commands.
Of a Good Conscience.
Of Justification.
Of the Fear of God.
The Doctrine of Grace Cleared from the Charge of Licentiousness.
The Doctrine of Imputed Righteousness without works, Asserted and Proved.
A Man After God's Heart
Mute Christian under the Smarting Rod - Part 1