Lamentaciones 3:40, Lamentaciones 3:41 NTV

THE DOCTRINE OF MAN’S IMPOTENCE Chapter 9 AFFIRMATION Many able writers, in their efforts to solve the problem presented by the moral impotence and yet the moral responsibility of fallen man, have stressed the distinction between natural and moral ability and inability. They have not seen how a man ... Read More

The Total Depravity of Man Chapter 5 TRANSMISSION In introducing this aspect of our subject we cannot do better than set before the reader what A. A. Hodge pointed out in Outlines of Theology as …the self-evident moral principles which must ever be certainly presupposed in every inquiry into the dea... Read More

"The voice of the Lord calls out to the city (and it is wise to fear Your name,) "Pay attention to the rod and the One who ordained it." Micah 6:9 Christians should hear the rod, and kiss the rod, and sit mute and silent under God's rod. Christians should be mute and silent under the greatest afflic... 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

"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 IV. WHY must Christians be mute and silent under the greatest afflictions, the saddest p... Read More

"Why should any living man complain when punished for his sins? Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord." Lamentations 3:39-40 "I will be patient as the Lord punishes me, for I have sinned against Him." Micah 7:9 Sins is the meritorious cause of all our sorrows and suffe... Read More

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart. — Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. — I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies. I mad... Read More

In Times of War By Samuel Davies, Hanover, Virginia; July 20, 1755. "An oracle concerning the Valley of Vision: What troubles you now, that you have all gone up on the roofs, O town full of commotion, O city of tumult and revelry? Your slain were not killed by the sword, nor did they die in battle. ... Read More

"Why should any living man complain when punished for his sins? Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord." –Lamentations 3:39, 40 I believe in my conscience there are thousands of professors who have never known in the whole course of their religious profession what it is... Read More

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 sinned against him, until he pleads my... Read More