THE BARREN FIG TREE OR THE DOOM AND DOWNFALL OF THE FRUITLESS PROFESSOR

THE BARREN FIG TREE OR THE DOOM AND DOWNFALL OF THE FRUITLESS PROFESSOR SHOWING, THAT THE DAY OF GRACE MAY BE PAST WITH HIM LONG BEFORE HIS LIFE IS ENDED THE SIGNS ALSO BY WHICH SUCH MISERABLE MORTALS MAY BE KNOWN   ‘Who being dead, …

Pictures from Pilgrim’s Progress: Chapter 5

CHRISTIAN AND THE ARROWS OF BEELZEBUB “When Christian was stepping in at the Wicket Gate, Goodwill gave him a pull. Then said Christian, ‘What means that?’ Good-will said to him, ‘A little distance from this gate there is erected a strong castle, of which Beelzebub …

Pictures from Pilgrim’s Progress: Chapter 4

Pictures from Pilgrim’s Progress A Commentary on Portions of John Bunyan’s Immortal Allegory   “HELPS” HAVING spoken about the best way of helping souls out of despondency and distress, I shall now proceed to describe those who may truly be called HELPS—for it is not …

An Exposition, With Practical Observations, of The Book of Ecclesiastes: 12

CHAPTER 12 The wise and penitent preacher is here closing his sermon; and he closes it, not only like a good orator, but like a good preacher, with that which was likely to make the best impressions and which he wished might be powerful and …

An Exposition, With Practical Observations, of The Book of Ecclesiastes: 11

CHAPTER 11 In this chapter we have, I. A pressing exhortation to works of charity and bounty to the poor, as the best cure of the vanity which our worldly riches are subject to and the only way of making them turn to a substantial …

An Exposition, With Practical Observations, of The Book of Ecclesiastes: 10

CHAPTER 10 This chapter seems to be like Solomon’s proverbs, a collection of wise sayings and observations, rather than a part of his sermon; but the preacher studied to be sententious, and “set in order many proverbs,” to be brought in in his preaching. Yet …

An Exposition, With Practical Observations, of The Book of Ecclesiastes: 9

CHAPTER 9 Solomon, in this chapter, for a further proof of the vanity of this world, gives us four observations which he had made upon a survey of the state of the children of men in it: I. He observed that commonly as to outward …

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