Chapter 1 THE VIRTUE OF THE SOUL which is called patience is so great a gift of God that it is even said to belong to Him who bestows it, in that He waits for the wicked to amend. So, although God cannot suffer, and …
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We Can Believe God’s Promises
Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were spoken of him. Luke 2:33. What are the marvelous things spoken of him? They are the things of which Simeon had spoken immediately before, when in the temple he took the child Jesus upon his …
CONNECTION BETWEEN FAITH AND WORKS
JAMES 2:24.—“Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.” THIS affirmation of the inspired apostle James seems to flatly contradict that famous assertion of the inspired apostle Paul which is so often quoted, as containing the pith …
THE ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE OR, THE EXCELLENCY OF A BROKEN HEART
‘THE SACRIFICES OF GOD ARE A BROKEN SPIRIT: A BROKEN AND A CONTRITE HEART, O GOD, THOU WILT NOT DESPISE.’—Psalm 51:17 This psalm is David’s penitential psalm. It may be fitly so called, because it is a psalm by which is manifest the unfeigned sorrow …
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A PRAYER AT DINNER TABLE
This is also found in the “Apostolic Constitutions” (lib. vii, c. 49), and commences, Εὐλογητὸς εἶ. We give Chatfield’s rendering: Thou art blessed, O Lord, who nourishest me from my youth, Who givest food to all flesh. Fill our hearts with joy and gladness, That …
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The Parable of the Sower “And when much people were gathered together and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable: a sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the wayside; and it …
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
PUBLISHER’S FOREWORD John Bunyan was born at Elstow, near Bedford, England, sometime in the fall of 1628, the first of three children born to Thomas and Margaret Bunyan. The parish register indicates that he was baptized on November 30, 1628. In Grace Abounding Bunyan describes …
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Plowing the Rock “Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen?”—Amos 6:12. THESE expressions are proverbs, taken from the familiar sayings of the east country. A proverb is generally a sword with two edges, or, if I may so say, it …
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The Plowman “Doth the plowman plow all day to sow?”—Isaiah 28:24. UNLESS they are cultivated, fields yield us nothing but briars and thistles. In this we may see ourselves. Unless the great Husbandman shall till us by his grace, we shall produce nothing that is …
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The Corn of Wheat dying to bring forth Fruit “And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth …