All of grace

Paul saith, ' Not of works, lest any man should boast.' Now, faith excludes all boasting. The hand which receives charity does not say, ' I am to be thanked for accepting the gift'; that would be absurd. When the hand co…

Grace is the first and last moving cause of salvation; and faith, essential as it is, is only an important part of the machinery which grace employs. We are saved 'through faith,'but salvation is 'by grace'.

I hear another man cry, ' Oh, sir my want of strength lies mainly in this, that I cannot repent sufficiently!' A curious idea men have of what repentance is! Many fancy that so many tears are to be shed, and so many groa…

One of these days you who are now a 'babe'in Christ shall be a 'father'in the church. Hope for this great thing; but hope for it as a gift of grace, and not as the wages of work, or as the product of your own energy.

It is not great faith, but true faith, that saves; and the salvation lies not in the faith, but in the Christ in whom faith trusts... It is not the measure of faith, but the sincerity of faith, which is the point to be c…