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George Fox

Epistle 240

George FoxFriends,—All outward things, figures, types, shadows, and inventions, have been set up since Adam fell; which inventions Christ destroys, and the types, figures, and shadows of him he fulfils [Heb 9 - 10], and brings man up out of the fall, to the seed he was in before he fell; and so in the power o... Read More
George Fox

Epistle 394

George FoxDear friends and brethren, who are elect and chosen in Christ Jesus before the foundation of the world [Eph 1:4]; in Christ you have peace, and in the world you have trouble. But ‘be of good cheer, Christ hath overcome the world [John 16:33],’ that lieth in wickedness [1 Jn 5:19], and all the persec... Read More
John Gill

The Moral Nature and Fitness of Things Considered

John GillTHE MORAL NATURE AND FITNESS OF THINGS CONSIDERED. OCCASIONED BY Some Passages in the Rev. Mr. Samuel Chandler’s Sermon, lately preached to the Societies for the Reformation of Manners. Nothing is more frequently talked of in this enlightened age, this age of politeness, reason and good sense, than ... Read More
Paris Reidhead

Brokenness

Paris ReidheadBrokenness By Paris Reidhead* Now for just a few minutes this evening I would like to press the claims that have been presented. I wondered why I felt so strangely moved to change the message that I had prepared, and will bring, at another time. But I felt drawn of the Lord today to take you back to... Read More
Paris Reidhead

Repentance What it Costs

Paris ReidheadRepentance What it Costs By Paris Reidhead* Will you turn to Exodus, Chapter 33. We have just read the 32nd Chapter. I choose to read beginning with the first verse of the 33rd Chapter: And the Lord said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the l... Read More
T. Austin-Sparks

A Special Vocation

T. Austin-Sparks"Ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ... But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of ... Read More
T. Austin-Sparks

A Tragic and Instructive Episode

T. Austin-SparksReading: 2 Samuel 6; 1 Chronicles 13, 16. In tracing the history of the Ark of the Testimony we have been deeply impressed with its foreshadowing of the Testimony of Jesus in the New Testament. What a varied and instructive history that has been! In its journey from its formation to its ultimate and... Read More
T. Austin-Sparks

Joshua

T. Austin-SparksIn our quest for instruction in leadership which the Scriptures contain, there is a wealth of teaching given in our second great Old Testament instance, namely Joshua. Oshea — Joshua — Jehoshua — Jesus means “The Lord — the Saviour”. Joshua, like the One whom he typifies, is the link joining the gre... Read More
T. Austin-Sparks

Levitical Priesthood

T. Austin-Sparks"Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be mine own possession from among all peoples: for all the earth is mine: and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel" (Exo... Read More
T. Austin-Sparks

The Appeal of God's Full Thought

T. Austin-SparksReading: 1 Cor. 1:1-10. Two things remain to be said about this introductory section to this letter. One is that it represents the position of the Lord’s people in Christ. Quite clearly all that is said there does not directly apply, so far as conditions were concerned, to the whole Corinthian assem... Read More

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