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In the cross of Christ (to employ the language of the Psalmist) mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Yes, in the Lamb of God, the Lamb that was slain, we see mercy triumphing…
The faith through which the soul is justified, while it utterly rejects works of any kind as joint grounds of justification, yet invariably produces, as evidences of its own genuineness, fruits of love. That very law of…
I learn, on the warrant of God's own word, that Emmanuel has satisfied, in my behalf, the inviolable claims of God's justice; so that while the moral government of a righteous Sovereign is vindicated by the atonement, th…
To draw nigh to God pre-supposes an acquaintance with him, and reconciliation to him through the blood of the atonement. The natural estrangement of the heart from God is very appropriately expressed by the metaphor of d…
The gospel itself teaches us that "God is love," and the plan of redemption which it unfolds, is a most sublime and glorious display of benignity and mercy, on the part of the Father who gave his Son, and of the Son who…
The followers of the Lamb are all enrolled in his book of life. From that divine omniscience and foreknowledge of which he is possessed, he knew from the beginning who shall believe and be saved, and who shall reject the…
There is an awful residue in the converted soul of proneness to a forgetfulness of Jesus; to alleviate and check this disease was one thing designed in this sacred institution. Our Lord, who knew all things, knew how apt…
No good man's conscience will suggest to him that he ought to become weary of his labours. He who delights in the service on which his duty or his usefulness depends, can have no wish to relinquish it. He is anxious to p…
When persons are in exalted stations, much depends on their conduct: we reckon every event interesting; and the heart is filled with anxiety to know the least circumstance. It is eminently so with those whom we dearly lo…
Few of us are to be found without some secular taint, some savouring of the things that be of men. Our spiritual necessities are not sufficiently felt, and consequently our prayers are unapt and vague, a sort of solemn i…
It is not the part of modesty either to enquire into the absolute number of the redeemed, or what proportion they shall bear to the whole of the human race. These are things which the day shall declare. Meanwhile it cann…
Prayer is the breath of spiritual life: it descends from God by His spirit, and ascends to Him again by the same spirit. It is ordained by Him as the grand mean of communication between Himself and them that are His: it…
If his glory hath ever been in our eyes, an object of delightful and admiring contemplation, it must also be the desire of our hearts, that all lands may be illuminated with its visible splendours. If our hearts have bee…
The Holy Spirit, breathing on the public ordinances, and the more private duties of Christianity, is like a fair wind and a brisk gale on a full-spread sail, which answers the highest expectations of the homeward-bound s…
How often is this beautiful and emphatic benediction repeated in a cold and formal manner! How indecent the practice of many in our worshipping assemblies, who busy themselves in preparing to withdraw while these solemn…
The Bible is a cure for guilty ignorance, a revelation of the only provision for the expiation of guilt itself. It opens upon man with all the charm and all the moral effectiveness of mercy to the ill-deserving, while th…
A proper view of the undertaking and work of Christ never fails to cheer the hearts of his people. However much they may be dejected, their mourning will be turned into rejoicing the moment that they see the Lord. This w…
The judgments of the Lord are unsearchable, and His ways past finding out. He loves His people with an everlasting love, yet often contends with them, as in anger, with severe and multiplied afflictions. He tenderly watc…
Man was at first created holy, placed in a happy situation by his Maker, and endowed with the greatest blessings; but, by his disobedience to the command of God, he rendered himself exposed to the death of the body and t…
The work which Christ performed for our salvation, though executed in time, was designed from eternity. The redemption of man proceeded not from a hasty resolution, formed without forethought, and taken on the spur of th…
If people say, "We do no harm to any body," and therefore our souls shall not perish, it is not the fact which is here alleged: the fact is quite the other way. If God should say, which however he does not, Whosoever can…
The words of this prayer are very few, and its matter very comprehensive. It comprises God in all His glory, and the sinner in all his shame. It contains all that we want; and in effect all that God wishes to hear from o…
My brethren, if the disciples could answer the outcast Nazarene, at a time when adherence to him endangered not only their comfort but their lives, "To whom can we go but unto thee?"—with how much more boldness and since…
Where will you find a father like God, who can love you as He will love you; who can provide for you as He will provide for you? Perhaps you may be already deprived of your earthly parents: or if they still be continued…
We know not the manner in which the Spirit of Christ works in our souls, and dwells in our hearts. The great Inhabitant is invisible—the great Worker is inscrutable; but His residence is manifest, His work is seen. "The…
Every aspect which the pardoning grace of God assumes in the record which reveals it, must be deeply interesting to those who feel their need of it. That record presents it to our notice in a variety of views. It sometim…
To know that we are Christians does not imply that we are free from sin, but that we are united to Christ. Our peace, and joy, and hope, the fruits of this union, need not be destroyed by our imperfections, however great…
Who was it that, at the blessed and glorious era of the Reformation, recovered, for so many lands, the light and liberty which the Papal Antichrist, during his long reign in the dark ages, had so completely taken away? I…
The grace of God is necessary for men of all characters and conditions. It is necessary, not only for the chief of sinners, but for those who are free from the pollutions of the world, to sanctify the motives of action,…
The heathens, destitute of a Divine revelation properly so called, have only the volumes of creation, providence, and conscience, in which to seek their Maker's will. Accustomed to behold only the works of God, and to he…
We are not to view God partially but as far as we can compleatly, as the Fountain of all Perfection, as containing in his Nature an Harmony of all that is excellent and glorious. He has a Right to do, and He can do whats…
If the unhappy resemblance of each generation of men to the preceding, too clearly proves that we inherit a fallen nature from our parents according to the flesh, the resemblance of Christians to the Holy Spirit affords…
The enemies of Samson were exceedingly anxious to know wherein his great strength lay, that they might accomplish his ruin. It is of no less importance for the Christian to know wherein his great weakness lies, that he m…
The heart of man, by nature, is a fortress of satan, a den of thieves, deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. In regeneration, when the holy Spirit makes his entry, the strong man armed is driven from the sea…
Conversion to God is the work of the Spirit. It is the Spirit alone that can effectually remove the vail. In the first ages of the Church, preaching was attended with power. The gospel is preached in many places in the v…
Where an offence has taken place, we should never suppose it removed till love be restored. Never let false delicacy, or a wish to avoid trouble, lead any one, in such a case, to disguise his sentiments. Let the matter b…
Little events and great are inseparably connected under the government of God. In this view, no occurrence is unimportant; each has reference to some momentous end, connected with the well-being of the whole creation, an…
This is a sample—a fair sample—of what the world, and, alas! a portion of the church, denominate "sudden conversions." A cold-hearted professor, dozing and dreaming over his privileges and his opportunities, sees his nei…