Proverbs 1:8-19

"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers; for what fellowship hath righteausiess with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?" (2 Cor. 6:14-18) This passage gives utterance to a Divine exhortation for those belonging to Christ to hold aloof from all intimate associa... Read More

And in Luke i. you may see, how the angel of the Lord appeared unto Mary the mother of Jesus, and what he said to her, and what a noble virtuous mind was in her; and she said unto the angel, ‘Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it unto me according to thy word [Luke 1:38];’ so her belief was beyond ... Read More

2. There are some special dangers that young men need to be warned against. (1) One danger to young men is pride. I know well that all souls are in fearful peril. Old or young, it doesn't matter; all have a race to run, a battle to fight, a heart to humble, a world to overcome, a body to keep under ... Read More

CHAPTER 2 His Labors in the Vineyard Before Ordination He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.(Psalm 126:6) While he was still undergoing a student's usual examinations before the Presbytery, in the spring and ... Read More

"And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." Matthew 6:13 I. As to the matter of this petition, "Lead us not into temptation," we may consider, what the word temptation means; and what kind of temptation may be here intended. 1. The word temptation, taken in a large sense, signifies ... Read More

"The just shall live by faith." (Heb. 10:38). Seemings and feelings are often substituted for faith. Pleasurable emotions and deep satisfying experiences are part of the Christian life, but they are not all of it. Trials, conflicts, battles and testings lie along the way, and are not to be counted a... Read More

My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. She took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. — Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not... Read More

St Theodoros the Great Ascetic (? 9"' century) (J'olume 2, pp. 13-47) Introductory Note The two works that follow, A Century of Spiritual Texts and Theoretikon,^ are ascribed in the Greek Philokalia to St Theodoros the Great Ascetic, a monk of the monastery of St Sabas near Jerusalem, who subsequent... Read More

For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world. Here again he opens to us yet another ground of comfort, and that not small, yea rather, exceeding great, and well fitted to... Read More

Psalm 36:2 For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful. In the foregoing verse, David says, that the transgression of the wicked said within his heart, "that there is no fear of God before his eyes;" that is, when he saw that the wicked went on in sin, in an ... Read More