“Come, buy wine and milk, without money, and without price.” Isa. lv. 1. Surely, no man can plead poverty as an excuse for not buying, when the things sold are not only without money, but without even the proposals for money; not only without ready money, but without any money. Here is not even a […]
“Whose heart-the Lord opened.”—Acts xvi. 14.It is always blessed to trace mercies to their source! And blessed when, through grace, we are enabled to give God his glory, and not put down to man’s merit what wholly originates in God’s grace. The opening of the heart can only be the province of Him that made it. Renewing work, […]
“And there appeared a great wonder in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.”—Rev. xii. 1.My soul! as the beloved apostle was invited to see those precious visions, which the Lord favoured him with, for the church’s good, so do thou, this evening, attend […]
Because Words Matter: Bowels In The BibleRobert Hawker | Added: Apr 13, 2019I should not have thought it necessary to have offered a single observation on this word, considered in the general acceptation of it, for every one cannot but know its obvious meaning. But it may be proper, notwithstanding, to observe, that as in its literal sense, […]
“But God commendeth his love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”—Romans v. 8. It is a very blessed heightening of divine mercies, when we behold them as not only bestowed upon those that deserved them not, but upon those that deserved the reverse of them. It is not […]
“And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.”—Isa. xlii. 16. Never, surely, was there a promise of […]
THE KING HATH BROUGHT ME Song 1:4 “The king hath brought me into his chambers.”–Song i. 4. Yes, he who is King of nations, King of saints, is my God and King also; for he hath an universal empire, being one with the Father over all, blessed for ever. Amen. To him I bow the […]
“I am my beloved’s, and his desire is towards me.”—Song vii. 10. Yes, dearest Jesus! I am truly thine, by every tie which can make me thine. I am thine by the gift of GOD the FATHER; by thine own betrothing me to thyself; by the HOLY GHOST anointing me in thee, and making me […]
BE OF ONE MIND Where there is a oneness of heart and affection between Jesus and the soul, if what He loves we love, and what He hates we hate, if His Father be our Father, and His people our people, this sameness of mind will carry with it a sameness of affection and we […]
“Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honey-comb.” – Song iv. II. While Jesus is so precious to his people, that they seek him in every thing that is lovely, and indeed can discover nothing to be lovely until they have found Jesus in it, what an endearment is it to the soul of […]