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DANIEL; Or, The Young Man's Purity James Smith, 1856 "But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way." Daniel 1:8 Purity of heart springs from the presence, power, and operation of the Holy Spirit ... Read More

Daniel's Principles Daniel 1 J. R. Miller, 1910 There is something very noble in the picture of Daniel which we have in the first chapter of the Book of Daniel. He was only a lad. He had been torn away from the godly restraints and influences of his own home. He was now at liberty to do as he please... Read More

The RESOLUTIONS of Jonathan Edwards (selected) "I have resolved that my mouth will not sin." Psalm 17:3 "Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine." Daniel 1:8 "For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you, except Jesus Christ and Him crucified." 1 Corinthians 2:2 Bei... Read More

Use V. Containing a Christian Directory, or Rules about Contentment. I proceed now to an use of direction, to show Christians how they may attain to this divine art of contentation. Certainly it is feasible, others of God's saints have reached to it. St Paul here had it; and what do we think of thos... Read More

'Give us this day our daily bread.' Matt 6: 11. In this petition there are two things observable -- the order, and the matter. I. First, we pray, Hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done,' before we pray, Give us this day our daily bread.' God's glory ought to weigh down all before i... Read More

Thomas Watson, The Lord's Prayer First published as part of A Body of Practical Divinity, 1692 The Preface to the Lord's Prayer 'Our Father which art in Heaven ' Having gone over the chief grounds and fundamentals of religion, and enlarged upon the decalogue, or ten commandments, I shall speak now u... Read More

Daniel 1 - 4. There is much interest attaching to the person of this great Gentile. The place he occupies in the progress of the divine dispensations, the circumstances which connect him with the saints of God, and his own personal history--all contribute to give him a place in our recollections, an... Read More

While Jeremiah was left at Jerusalem to witness the course of moral corruption there, and to warn of coming judgment, and while Ezekiel was among the remnant in the place of discipline or of righteousness on the river Chebar, Daniel is set among the Gentiles, even at Babylon, to learn the history an... Read More

We know more of the personal history and the private life of Daniel than we do of any of the other prophets. He is introduced to us as a teenage boy, probably 15 to 17 years of age, when he was carried away as a captive and transplanted from his home in Israel to a foreign country, a heathen land. F... Read More

Revelation 4 - 19: 10. Last week we were occupied with the vision given to John in Patmos. Being in the Spirit, he saw Jesus Christ in the midst of seven golden candlesticks, but with all the glorious insignia of the Ancient of days (yet Son of man) examining the churches. The whole scene was brough... Read More