Isaiah 17

A Christian on the Mount A Treatise Concerning Meditation By Thomas Watson "His delight is in the law of the Lord, and on His law he meditates day and night." Psalm 1:2 Having led you through the Chamber of Delight in my previous discourse, I will now bring you into the Withdrawing Room of Meditatio... Read More

This is the Finger of God! J.C. Ryle, written during the Great Cattle Plague of England , 1865-1867 Look at the words which form the title of this booklet, and consider them well. They were spoken by heathen men more than three thousand years ago. They fell from the lips of Egyptian magicians when o... Read More

Trusting God! Arthur Pink, 1933 Of himself, the Christian can no more regulate his faith than he could originate it. Only He who imparted it, can call it forth into action. This is recognized by few today. Even in those little groups where it is owned that faith is the gift of God (Eph 2:8-9; Phi 1:... Read More

Confiding Trust and Patient Submission Preached at North Street Chapel, Stamford, on September 19, 1858, by J. C. Philpot "Rejoice not against me, O my enemy; when I fall I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me. I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have... Read More

Winter Before Harvest, or The Soul's Growth in Grace By Joseph Philpot, 1837 "For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches. They shall be left together unto ... Read More

PLEASANT PLANTS AND DESPERATE SORROW Preached at North Street Chapel, Stamford, on December 23rd, 1860, by J. C. Philpot "Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not been mindful of the rock of your strength, therefore shall you plant pleasant plants , and shall set it with st... Read More

The Four Looks! George Everard, 1882 "Looking unto Jesus!" Hebrews 12:2 Four precious promises embrace the whole field of God's bounty and goodness to His people. The Four "Alls" touch our need on every side. 1. Conscience is satisfied through "the blood that cleanses from all sin." 2. Our manifold ... Read More

'Great is the mystery of godliness, God manifest in the flesh.' I Tim 3:16. Q-xxvii: WHEREIN DID CHRIST'S HUMILIATION CONSIST? A: In his being born, and that in a low condition, made under the law, undergoing the miseries of this life, the wrath of God, and the cursed death of the cross. Christ's hu... Read More

TRYAL & TRIVMPH OF FAITH: OR An Exposition of the History of Christs dispossessing of the daughter of the woman of Canaan. Delivered in SERMONS; In which are opened, The Victory of Faith; The condition of those that are tempted; The excellency of Jesus Christ and Free-Grace; AND Some speciall Ground... Read More

1 Corinthians 15: 22-28. As to the whole of this chapter, I may say there is an order in the parts of it, which it is edifying to discover and meditate. It might be entitled, "The story of grace and of glory in the light of the resurrection." The order of which I speak is this. 1-4. The fact of the ... Read More