ephesians-5:8

I will show you the eight particular properties of a man without Christ. 1. Every man without Jesus Christ is a base man. 2. He is a bondman. 3. He is a beggarly man. 4. He is a blind man. 5. He is a deformed man. 6. He is a disconsolate man. 7. He is a dead man; and 8. He is a damned man. These are... Read More

Heb. 13: 4. One of the marks of the last days is "forbidding to marry" (1 Tim. 4: 3), a mark of that state of things which leads to final judgment. "Marriage is honourable in all." I don't know anything that marks the low state of things in Christendom more than the levity with which marriage is tho... Read More

Daniel explains the four kingdoms to be great in energy and power to the end of the days. When fully developed, another king will come out, when Israel will figure on the earth. It was too much for Nebuchadnezzar, his heart was filled up. The Assyrian monarchy, Persian, Grecian, and Roman, went on t... Read More

Preached at North Street Chapel, Stamford, on Lord's Day Afternoon, September 23, 1866 "And let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus ... Read More

Preached at Eden Street Chapel, Hampstead Road, London, on Lord's Day Evening, August 28, 1844 "Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me." Philippians 1:30 A partaker of grace carries with him the most undeniable evidence that he is a partaker of grace. It is as much sta... Read More

Preached at North Street Chapel, Stamford, on Lord's Day Morning, September 23, 1866 "Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and ... Read More

"Worldly people, who do not have the Spirit." Jude 19 I take it for granted that every reader of this paper believes in the Holy Spirit. The number of people in this country who are infidels, deists, or Socinians, and openly deny the doctrine of the Trinity, is happily not very great. Most people ha... Read More

My dear John, How much I charge myself for want of joy in God; and I have just come from looking at a scripture that may be able to fix this charge still more home upon the spirit; I mean the opening of Luke. What joy among the angels there; what joy on earth in the vessels filled by the Spirit ther... Read More

It is not so much of Enoch himself that I now purpose, in the Lord's grace, I would hope, to write a little, but rather of the times and the saints before the flood. Whether it be of them or of him, the materials, as we know, are very scanty; but in the way and wisdom of the Spirit of God, they are ... Read More

On the 15th of the same month, in the evening, came the jailer and ordered Thomas Hall and myself to the common jail because we could not answer his unreasonable demands. Howbeit there was not room in the common jail, for it was wholly taken up with poor debtors and thieves. I having been sick for s... Read More