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Reuben Archer Torrey

How to Work for Christ: Book 1: Personal Work, Chapter 8

Reuben Archer TorreyHOW TO DEAL WITH THOSE WHO ENTERTAIN FALSE HOPES I. THE HOPE OF BEING SAVED BY A RIGHTEOUS LIFE. 1. This is the most common of false hopes. Even among those who profess to be Christians, there are many who are really depending upon their lives as Christians for their acceptance before God. Those who... Read More
Samuel Rutherford

The Trial & Triumph of Faith: Sermon 5

Samuel Rutherford"VEXED with a devil;" she is devilled, that is, fully possessed. The malice of the devil is a natural agent, and worketh as intently and bently as he can. As the fire putteth forth all its strength in burning; the sun heateth and enlighteneth as vehemently as it can; a millstone fallen from the sphe... Read More
Samuel Rutherford

The Trial & Triumph of Faith: Sermon 8

Samuel RutherfordTHE condition of the covenant is faith; holiness and sanctification is the condition of covenanters, (Gal. 4:21-24; Rom. 10:4-7). This do, was the condition of the covenant of works. This believe, is the condition of this covenant; because faith sendeth a person out of himself, and taketh him off hi... Read More
Smith Wigglesworth

Ever Increasing Faith: Chapter 13: Concerning Spiritual Gifts

Smith WigglesworthIn 1 Cor. 12:1 we read, "Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant." There is a great weakness in the church of Christ because of an awful ignorance concerning the Spirit of God and the gifts He has come to bring. God would have us powerful on all lines because of the r... Read More
Raymond Barber

Heaven's Mandate to Win the Lost

The book of Acts is commonly called the fifth Gospel because it is a continuation of that which our Lord began both to do and teach in the days of His flesh upon the earth. "Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men."-Acts 5:29. Dearly beloved, when we... Read More
Richard Owen Roberts

Twelve Articles of Explicit Agreement

y the mercy of God I have been a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ since my early youth. Over the years of my earthly pilgrimage I have known what it is like to climb great spiritual mountains and how it feels to fall into chasms of blackness. I have had long seasons of great Christian joy and inten... Read More
Thomas Watson

The Art of Divine Contentment: Chapter 2

Thomas WatsonThe First Branch of the Text, the Scholar, with the First Proposition. I begin with the first: The scholar, and his proficiency; "I have learned." Out of which I shall by the bye, observe two things by way of paraphrase. 1. The apostle doth not say, I have heard, that in every estate I should be con... Read More
Hetty Bowman

Thoughts On The Christian Life

Thoughts on the Christian Life; or, Leaves from Letters Hetty Bowman, 1872 INTRODUCTORY NOTE Under the touching circumstances of the early and lamented death of her who wrote this volume, I cannot refuse a request made to me, that I should write a few prefatory lines. The name of "Hetty Bowman" is n... Read More
J.C. Philpot

Reconciliation And Salvation

J.C. PhilpotReconciliation and Salvation Preached at North Street Chapel, Stamford, on May 16, 1858, by J. C. Philpot "For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life." Romans 5:10 There are two points of divine truth on... Read More
Arthur Pink

All Things!

Arthur PinkAll Things Arthur Pink December, 1947 Those two words supply an example of something to which we allude in these pages every once in a while, and which requires to be frequently emphasized in this age of shallowness; namely, the danger there is of being misled by the sound of certain expressions in ... Read More

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