STUDIES ON SAVING FAITH Part IV DIALOGUE 3 Editor Visits Humble Heart In the communicating of His Word God was pleased to speak ‘at sundry times and in divers manners’ (Heb. 1:1). In the Scriptures of Truth we have clear doctrinal instruction and plain precepts for the regulation of conduct, but we ... Read More
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 DOCTRINE OF REVELATION Chapter 12 THE HOLY BIBLE MORE UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS—1. 1. Its doctrine. Probably that heading would be more intelligible unto most of our readers had we employed the plural number. As a matter of fact, it is at this very point that its uniqueness first appears. Error is ... Read More
The Doctrine of Sanctification 22. Its Instrument (COMPLETED) Having presented an outline in our last chapter of the part which faith plays in sanctification, we shall now endeavour, under God, to offer consolation unto some of our sin-burdened, doubt-harassed, Satan-tormented brethren and sisters i... Read More
The CAUSE OF GOD AND TRUTH. Part 1 Section 52—Hebrews 10:38. Now the just shall live by faith; but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. The doctrine of the possibility of the final departure of true believers from the faith, is said[1] to be still farther evident from these w... Read More
A Body of PRACTICAL Divinity Book 4—Chapter 4 OF THE RESPECTIVE DUTIES OF MAGISTRATES AND SUBJECTS The duties of subjection and obedience to magistrates, supreme and subordinate, are frequently inculcated in the sacred writings; and the reason why the apostles so often and so strongly urge them, is ... Read More
A Body of PRACTICAL Divinity Book 1—Chapter 5 OF THE FEAR OF GOD The fear of God has so great a concern in divine worship, that it is sometimes put for the whole of it; and a worshipper of God is frequently described in scripture by one that fears him; and particularly internal worship, or experimen... Read More
My feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O Lord, held me up. The Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not. A just man falleth seven tim... 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
"My son, fear thou the Lord and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change" (Proverbs 24.21). I came across an arresting statement in the Book of Job: "My witness is in heaven, and my record is on high" (Job 16.19), of which the Gaelic version reads as follows: "My witness is in the... Read More
STUDIES ON SAVING FAITH Part IV DIALOGUE 3 Editor Visits Humble Heart
THE DOCTRINE OF MAN’S IMPOTENCE Chapter 9 AFFIRMATION
THE DOCTRINE OF REVELATION Chapter 12 THE HOLY BIBLE MORE UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS—1.
The Doctrine of Sanctification 22. Its Instrument (COMPLETED)
CAUSE OF GOD AND TRUTH. Part 1 Section 52—Hebrews 10:38.
Of the Duties of Magistrates and Subjects.
Of the Fear of God.
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The Philokali Volume 2
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