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'For this is the will of God, even your sanctification.' I Thess 4:4. The word sanctification signifies to consecrate and set apart to a holy use: thus they are sanctified persons who are separated from the world, and set apart for God's service. Sanctification has a privative and a positive part. I... Read More

Q-xxxvi: WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS WHICH FLOW FROM SANCTIFICATION? A: Assurance of God's love, peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Ghost, increase of grace, and perseverance therein to the end. The first benefit flowing from sanctification is assurance of God's love. 'Give diligence to make your callin... Read More

"But his delight is in the law of the LORD." [Psalm 1:2] CHAPTER I. Shewing that Negative Goodness is but a broken Title to Heaven. AS the book of the Canticles is called the Song of Songs by an Hebraism, it being the most excellent; so this psalm may not unfitly be entitled, the Psalm of Psalms, fo... Read More

The RESOLUTIONS of Jonathan Edwards (selected) "I have resolved that my mouth will not sin." Psalm 17:3 "Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine." Daniel 1:8 "For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you, except Jesus Christ and Him crucified." 1 Corinthians 2:2 Bei... Read More

The Harlots Face in the Looking-Glass of Scripture by John Flavel Proverbs 6:32 "But a man who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself!" The next danger I shall give you warning of, is the sin of immorality; with which I fear too many of the rude and looser sort of seamen d... Read More

Come to Jesus! Newman Hall, 1816-1902 Listen, dear fellow-sinner. How kind, how wonderful an invitation is this! God speaks, and speaks to you. The Father says, "Come!" The Son says, "Come!" The Holy Spirit says, "Come!" The blessed angels echo the cry, "Come!" Many poor sinners who have accepted th... Read More

SIN REMEMBERED By John Angell James Our minds when we approach the table of the Lord, should be filled with various graces, all of them holy; so as to render our devotion like the cloud of incense in the temple, which was compounded of many ingredients, all of them exceedingly precious, and all of D... Read More

THE NIGHT WATCHES By John MacDuff "I remember You upon my bed — and meditate on You in the night watches ." — Psalm 63:6 "My soul waits for the Lord more than those who watch for the morning." — Psalm 130:6 "Yet the Lord will command His loving-kindness in the day time, and in the night His song sha... Read More

David's Confession Psalm 51 J. R. Miller, 1912 "Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin." Verses 1-2. The fifty-first Psalm tells the story of David's great sin . It... Read More

The Rest of the Soul! by William Nicholson, 1862 "Return unto your rest, O my soul; for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you." Psalm 116:7 God is the only foundation of true happiness; therefore it is the wisdom and privilege of man to look to him for substantial and never-ending bliss. If he app... Read More