1 Samuel 20:18-42

THE DOCTRINE OF RECONCILIATION Chapter 23 Its Reception-Continued In our last we sought to show that the words "be reconciled to God" (2 Cor. 5:20) are not an exhortation unto saints to acquiesce in the Divine providences or to render submission to His discipline and ordinances, but instead, that th... Read More

Matthew chapter 26 MATTHEW 26:1-13 It happened, when Jesus had finished all these words, that he said to his disciples, "You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified." Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people we... Read More

"Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it." [Proverbs 22:6] I believe that most professing Christians are acquainted with our sermon text. The sound of it is probably very familiar to your ears, like an old tune. It is likely that you have heard it, or read ... Read More

A Body of PRACTICAL Divinity Book 4—Chapter 2 OF THE RESPECTIVE DUTIES OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN These duties arise from a relation founded in nature. There is a natural instinct[1] in all creatures, even in the brutal creation, and in the more brutish part of that, to love their young, take care of t... Read More

A Body of Doctrinal Divinity Book 2—Chapter 7 OF THE EVERLASTING COVENANT OF GRACE, BETWEEN THE FATHER, AND THE SON, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT. The council before treated of, is the basis and foundation of the Covenant of grace, and both relate to the same thing, and in which the same persons are concerne... Read More

To those who had not attended the assembly. To those who had not attended the assembly; on the apostolic saying, If your enemy hunger feed him, and concerning resentment of injuries. 1. I did no good as it seems by the prolonged discourse which I lately addressed to you with a view to kindling your ... Read More

Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up. Thus, whereas he had showed, that both faith and knowledge and prophecy and tongues and gifts and healing and a perfect life and martyrdom, if love be absent, are no great advantage; of necessity he next makes... Read More

David is the principal object before the mind of the Spirit of God in both the 1st and the 2nd books of Samuel. In the 1st book we see him brought from obscurity into honour and praise, and there standing, by the good hand of God, in full righteousness amid the persecutions of the wicked. In the 2nd... Read More

1. Of this Psalm, the title seems not to need operose discussion: for simple and easy it appears. For thus it stands: For the end, for David himself a Psalm of a Song. But in many Psalms already we have reminded you what is at the end: for the end of the Law is Christ for righteousness to every man ... Read More

There is a great need in the body of Christ for consistent reading of the Holy Scriptures in their entirety, book by book, chapter by chapter, verse by verse. In this case we are encouraging a chronological reading of the Scriptures. Most of the confusion is created when certain teachers, groups, or... Read More