Sermons & Devotionals by John Nelson Darby
John Nelson Darby
Letter: 10E 29 G V Wigram, Stafford, January 31st, 1839
p29 G V Wigram - With regard to speaking, I am quite clear those who speak error ought to be stopped, and those, I think, who speak merely from the suggestion of the flesh, ought to be first warned of it. Any one may do it in love, but those who guide may, if it be needed, take it up, and that for t... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Letter: 11E 31 G V Wigram, Edmondsbury, August 2nd 1839
p31 [To the same.] Dear Wigram, - The Lord is sufficient for all things, and not only so, but, blessed be His faithful name, provides for and orders all things to the glory of Him whose interests are made the same as ours. . . . As to your own work . . . I think the visiting part myself, quite as im... Read More
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Letter: 12F 31 Mr Maylan, Neuchâtel, November 22nd, 1839
p31 [From the French.] VERY DEAR BROTHER [Mr Maylon], - G., who told me that you are now settled in - , begged me to write you a few lines, which I do very willingly: indeed, it was on my asking him for news of you that he spoke to me of you, and told me that you had some thought of applying yoursel... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Letter: 13F 33 Mr Maylan, Geneva, January 2nd, 1840
p33 [Mr Maylon] [From the French.] VERY DEAR BROTHER, - I was rejoiced to receive your letter, and to see that you are in fact working in the Lord's field, and for the Lord. Specially that you are able to trust yourself to the Lord to sustain you in your path, and to maintain you as to the things of... Read More
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Letter: 14E 35 unknown, —, 1840
p35 [Mr Maylon] If we have any right views of what the church of Christ is, every one will be bound by love to serve in some way. The preciousness of the church is shewn in this, "He loved the church, and gave himself for it." His love never changes - "strong as death" will be marked by-and-by. Ther... Read More
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Letter: 16E 36 G V Wigram, Lausanne, March 23rd, 1840
p36 Dearest G V Wigram, - . . . As to dear - , you must not expect him to stay long in a place: he wins affections, and makes his way much among many minds, but he attaches himself to this, looks to it too much, and consequently does not last in a place for that comes only from attaching oneself to ... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Letter: 17F 38 Mr E Maylan, Lausanne, July 5th, 1840
p38 [Mr E Maylon] [From the French.] DEAR BROTHER, - I was very glad and thankful to receive your letter, and I bless God for having led you as He has done in His goodness, and am quite relieved to find that our brethren of La V. are edifying themselves together. It is a favour from God. When we are... Read More
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Letter: 18E 40 G V Wigram, Lausanne, September 15th, 1840
p40 Dearest G V Wigram, - I have suffered lately from violent pain in the stomach which . . . sometimes four nights a week deprived me of rest. . . . Labouring in extreme heat, and the toil occasioned by the state of Lausanne - where there was no life to walk stayed on the Lord, and if the evil shew... Read More
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Letter: 19F 42 Mr E Maylan, Geneva, October 8th, 1840
p42 [Mr E Maylon] [From the French.] VERY DEAR BROTHER, - I wish to write you a few lines. . . . Some days have passed; I had to go to Lausanne, and to interrupt my letter. I rather fear, beloved brother, that we have failed somewhat in the energy of faith; I speak of myself. I fear I have lost some... Read More
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Letter: 1E 1 B. & S. Plymouth, Dublin, May, 1832
p1 DEAREST BRETHREN AND SISTERS [at Plymouth], - Grace and peace be to you, and mercy from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I cannot write to you altogether as I could wish, for though my heart should flow out towards you all as it does before God, I write with some restraint, for though bu... Read More
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Letter: 20E 43 G V Wigram, Lausanne, January 11th, 1841
p43 Dearest G V Wigram, - A mouthful of English, and thoughts of the dear brethren, of whom I am almost obliged to deny myself the recollection, or I begin to hanker after them, and to be discontented with this part at least of the desert, for it is always this part that is disagreeable to us - but ... Read More
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Letter: 23F 47 G V Wigram, —, October 7th, 1841
p47 [From the French.] G V Wigram, I do not quite like that expression, "Christ has obtained justification from God," because it presents God as unwilling and even opposed to the thing, while it is the will and the heart of God which has provided the sacrifice and all. It is true that the righteousn... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Letter: 24F 48 G V Wigram, Lausanne, January, 1842
p48 [From the French.] G V Wigram, To apprehend aright the place of the law is a difficult thing, because we must be fully led by the Holy Spirit in order not to be ourselves, in some sort, under law, as to our feelings at least. We must have rightly seized the power of the work and resurrection of ... Read More
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Letter: 25E 50 G V Wigram, Lausanne, July 14th, 1842
p50 Dearest G V Wigram, - As to all speaking, if the brethren prefer all meetings of brethren as such, it is all very well; I have no objection; I would meet cordially with them; but when they do not meet corporately as brethren, then I act on my individual responsibility to God - I individualise my... Read More
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Letter: 26F 51 E Maylan, Lausanne, October 10th, 1842
p51 [E Maylan] [From the French.] DEAR BROTHER, - Dear F. has communicated to me your letter. I bless God that you have found the sweet peace of communion with God: it is there that strength is found - our only true strength; it is there, dear brother, that we get hold of, and there alone, the princ... Read More
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Letter: 27F 53 E Maylan, Lausanne, October 11th, 1842
p53 [To the same.] [E Maylan] [From the French.] DEAR BROTHER, - I have not much news to give you from here. In comparison with what was the case a year and a half ago, the awakening and the results are striking enough, but old Dissent on one side, and especially the old Dissenting ministers, whom t... Read More
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Letter: 28E 54 G V Wigram, Lausanne, January 21st, 1843
p54 Dearest G V Wigram, - It is always good to hear both of the Lord's work, and the labour of the beloved brethren. I am exceedingly thankful for the prayers of the brethren, and indeed I pray you to thank them that pray for me. I need it, and if I be weak, need it the more. You must not expect muc... Read More
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Letter: 29E 56 Gillett, Lausanne, 1843
p56 Dearest Gillett, - I was glad to have some news of you; we must not expect to pass through the valley without combats, also "the husbandman labouring first must be partaker of the fruits." All we have to seek is to be faithful to Christ in them, and then there results always blessing; it is a pu... Read More
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Letter: 2E 4 Plymouth, Granard, Ireland, October 15th, 1832
p4 [to Plymouth from Ireland] Dear - , I saw so little of you, from various circumstances, while I was at Plymouth, that I the rather take occasion to write to you, though I steal twenty minutes from the toil of one of our day's meetings. I am anxious, too, to say a few words about my most dear bret... Read More
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Letter: 30E 59 Mrs Darnell, Yverdun, March 25th, 1843
p59 Dear Mrs. Darnell, - You must not be surprised at the seeming long delay in answering your letter, as it has followed me to Lausanne and Geneva. Perhaps the good Lord has given you peace already - at least, before you receive this; but in case it be not so, I answer according to the light God ha... Read More
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John Nelson Darby (1800 - 1882)
was an Anglo-Irish Bible teacher, one of the influential figures among the original Plymouth Brethren and the founder of the Exclusive Brethren. He is considered to be the father of modern Dispensationalism and Futurism ("the Rapture" in the English vernacular). Pre-tribulation rapture theology was popularized extensively in the 1830s by John Nelson Darby and the Plymouth Brethren, and further popularized in the United States in the early 20th century by the wide circulation of the Scofield Reference Bible.He produced a translation of the Bible based on the Hebrew and Greek texts called The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages by J. N. Darby. Darby traveled widely in Europe and Britain in the 1830s and 1840s, and established many Brethren assemblies. He gave 11 significant lectures in Geneva in 1840 on the hope of the church (L'attente actuelle de l'église). These established his reputation as a leading interpreter of biblical prophecy.
John Nelson Darby was an Anglo-Irish evangelist, and an influential figure among the original Plymouth Brethren. He is considered to be the father of modern Dispensationalism. He produced a translation of the Bible based on the Hebrew and Greek texts called The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages by J. N. Darby.
John Nelson Darby graduated Trinity College, Dublin, in 1819 and was called to the Irish bar about 1825; but soon gave up law practice, took orders, and served a curacy in Wicklow until, in 1827, doubts as to the Scriptural authority for church establishments led him to leave the institutional church altogether and meet with a company of like-minded persons in Dublin.
Darby traveled widely in Europe and Britain in the 1830s and 1840s, and established many Brethren assemblies. These established his reputation as a leading interpreter of biblical prophecy. He was also a Bible Commentator. He declined however to contribute to the compilation of the Revised Version of the King James Bible.