Psalm 148

Honey Out of the Rock by Thomas Wilcox (1621-1687) —But I would feed you with the best of foods. I would satisfy you with honey from the rock." Psalm 81:16 A word of advice to my own heart and yours. You are a religious person and partake of all the ordinances. You do well: they are glorious privile... Read More

Comfort My People By Thomas Bradbury, Preached in Grove Chapel, Camberwell, Sunday Evening, November 7th, 1897. " Comfort, comfort my people ," says your God. Isaiah 40:1 God's message by the prophet Isaiah to His spiritual Israel abounds with gracious consolation and heavenly encouragement. This is... Read More

Preface to Volume 7, Psalms 125-150 At the end of all these years, the last page of this Commentary is printed, and the seventh preface is requested. This demand sounds strange in my ears. A preface when the work is done? It is only nominally a preface--it is really a farewell. I introduce my closin... Read More

The Real Presence—What Is It? by J. C. Ryle "If Your Presence does not go with us—do not send us up from here!" Exodus 33:15 There is a word in the text which heads this page which demands the attention of all English Christians in this day. That word is "presence." There is a religious subject boun... Read More

A Christmas-day Sermon By Samuel Davies, December 25, 1760 "And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying: Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace, good-will towards men!" Luke 2:13, 14 This is the day which the church of Rome, and some oth... Read More

Remember the Sabbath-day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is wit... Read More

All that I desire to do upon the Book of Jonah the prophet is, to suggest a few things which have struck my own mind with interest, leaving the subject to the further meditations of my brethren, trusting withal, that to whatever measure of knowledge we may, any of us, attain, it may prove to be the ... Read More

"If Your Presence does not go with us--do not send us up from here!" Exodus 33:15 There is a word in the text which heads this page which demands the attention of all English Christians in this day. That word is "presence." There is a religious subject bound up with that word, on which it is most im... Read More

Preached at Eden Street Chapel, Hampstead Road, London, on Lord's Day Evening, July 29, 1849 "For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: so sh... Read More

520. The first and primary means of grace is the Word of God. Lutheran and Reformed agree with each other here. Nevertheless, the latter do not discuss the Word of God under the heading of the means of grace, since in their dogmatics they have usually treated it by this time in a separate chapter [r... Read More